Vogue meets its remarkable stars, Ruth_Madeley and Arthur_Hughes1.
“It’s ridiculous,” agrees Arthur Hughes, 30, who plays the role of Holdsworth, a baby-faced assassin who is relentless in his fight for justice. “It took a hell of a lot of sacrifice to achieve what they did and still it’s not a widely told story in the UK’s history.”
Both major players in the disability arts scene, Lisicki and Holdsworth met at a cabaret gig in 1989, a time when disability discrimination was rampant – buildings, public transport and job opportunities remained excruciatingly inaccessible without vital equality laws. Lisicki’s stand-up routine, as the sharp-tongued comedian “Wanda Barbara”, struck like a lightning bolt, her satirical one-liners capturing disability in a fresh, radical way. “I mean, I know this is stand-up, but...
A self-confessed “social butterfly”, Madeley has a network split between her professional bubble in London and a close-knit group of school friends from Bolton, where she currently lives with her long-term boyfriend and their British bulldog, Buford. While in London, Madeley will always get drinks with her friends from acting circles . Naturally, this circle includes Hughes, a resident of south-east London, where he now lives with his girlfriend, just a short walk from Brockley market.
Indeed, he pitches his performance with a tornado-like ferocity. “I didn’t know he had an Alan in him. But, man, did it come raging out,” recalls the Bafta-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne (
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