Tim Minchin is a Tony Award-winning musician, comedian, actor, and writer. In 2009, he was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to write the music and lyrics for a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Matilda the Musical has won over 50 international awards, including seven Olivier Awards and five Tony Awards. His new children’s book, When I Grow Up, is based on the lyrics of the songs from Matilda.From Minchin's Q&A with Michael Hogan for the Guardian:
[Minchin] I’m interested in how the world’s changed since I last properly did comedy in 2010.--Marshal Zeringue
What’s been your view of that from over in LA?
Pretty bleak. It feels a bit post-jokes. Maybe “Post-Jokes Jokes” should be the name of my next live show. In this post-factual era, the horse called “evidence” seems to have bolted. That horse is in the knacker’s yard. California is obviously a liberal heartland but I really have a problem with this country. They call it populism, but it’s just nationalism. In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy and it’s poison. It used to be appropriate but it’s not any more and we haven’t learned that lesson yet. Trump is a nationalist. Brexit wouldn’t have got across the line without nationalistic philosophies. Even Australia’s stubbornness about gay marriage, which is as upsetting as everything else at the moment, is...[read on]