Tim Minchin on his busiest year yet – WBNews

If you don’t know the name you will recognise his face. Tim Minchin is the back-combed, bare-footed comedian with an Australian accent and trademark heavy eyeliner. The 35-year-old has been experiencing one of the busiest years of his career so far. He is about to see the songs he has been writing come to life on stage in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. The songwriter is also busy promoting his new live DVD and trying to write new material for his arena tour next year. Hello Tim, you have a lot of things on your plate at the moment, has it been hard? It’s been pretty stressful at times, yes. In the past year you have been touring and writing music for Matilda, how have you managed? I’ve absolutely loved it but there have been times where I’ve been in Australia and I’ve been staying in some hotel with my two kids and trying to write some Matilda songs and I totally failed, so it’s been quite stressful. But Matilda’s been the best and one of the greatest joys I’ve ever had. It’s been really hard work, but it’s so thorough and I’ve been held so accountable by the text and by the director and my own expectations as to how good it should be. I’ve really enjoyed that thoroughness of it. With comedy it’s hard to second guess what you think is funny and put it on stage. But with this, you know where the…more detail