Felicity Kendal: ‘The Good Life was an incredibly lucky break that did me no end of good’
msn.cominfluential and endlessly repeated 1970s comedy classic The Good Life. Yet she admits of the part that made her name: “There was a time when, if things had been different, Barbara would have been a bit of a curse – because for 10 years afterwards, I was always being offered similar light comedy things.
But as I’ve got older, I’ve done so much theatre – from Ayckbourn to Beckett – that The Good Life has now become a lovely memory for me.
And it was an incredibly lucky break that did me no end of good, by making me a recognisable actress. ”Having been set to work full-time at the age of 12 in her parents’ travelling theatre company in India, the actress became a stage addict for life.
And for the first time since the recovery of her partner, the theatre director Michael Rudman, now 83, from a life-threatening six months of Covid between September 2020 and March 2021 – as well as from breaking his back in a shocking fall afterwards, only revealed here now – she finally feels able to return to her nomadic roots on a short 40th-anniversary tour of Michael Frayn’s famous farce Noises Off.
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