Her Big Chance

Meet Lesley, she’s an actress. She has just completed a film ('targeted chiefly on West Germany') in which she plays Travis, a career girl who enjoys life, spends a remarkable amount of time topless and shoots a man with a harpoon gun.

She tells all, blind to the sinister undertones of her story as well as to her own self-delusions and gullibility.

Alan Bennett’s superbly funny monologue, originally performed by Julie Walters as part of the ‘Talking Heads’ series on BBC, features local actor Natalie Castka as Lesley and was part of the 2013 British Invasion Festival of UK Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri.