Most recently Liza has appeared in two new plays. As Enid in The Croft by
Ali Miles, on a national tour. Then to Scarborough and the Stephen Joseph
Theatre, for Alan Ayckbourn, to play Maxine in Earth Angel, Alan’s 91st play.
Other recent national tours include, Noises Off and Relatively Speaking for
Bath Theatre Royal.
Theatre includes The Smallest Show On Earth , a new musical, Black Coffee
and Go Back For Murder, by Agatha Christie. Dry Rot and Star Quality.
Communicating Doors, Season’s Greetings, If I Were You, Snake In The
Grass, Life and Beth and Life Of Riley all written and directed by Alan
Ayckbourn. Liza has appeared in all the Oscar Wilde plays, Importance of
Being Earnest twice as Cicely and many years later, Lady Bracknell, Mrs
Erlynne in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mrs Cheveley in An Ideal Husband and
Lady Hunstanton in A Woman of No Importance. Liza has played opposite
Robert Powell in Murder By Misadventure, Single Spies, Relatively Spreking
and Sherlock Holmes, The Final Curtain.
Other stage appearances include Mansfield Park, a Chichester Festival
Theatre production, The Constant Wife, She Stoops To Conquer, The Flip
Side, Blithe Spirit, The Signs Of The Times, with Kenneth Moore at the
Vaudeville, No Sex Please We’re British, with David Jason, at The Strand,
The Hard Shoulder at the Aldwych, See How They Run at the Shaftesbury,
and Wife Begins At Forty, the Ambassador’s. Two new plays by N C hunter,
One Fair Daughter and Henry of Navarre. Arms and the Man and Candida,
George Bernard Shaw.
Liza first came to notice on the small screen in Skippy The Bush Kangaroo,
in Australia, having already played Juliet, Antigone, the Sophocles version
and Euridice in Jean Anouilh’s Point Of Departure.
On returning to the UK, Liza was in the groundbreaking Take Three Girls, 2
series, for the BBC and a sequel Take Three Women. She was in The upshot
Line, Holding On and the hugely popular The Brothers.
Other tv performances include Casualty, Grandpa I My Pocket, Midsummer
Murders, Zip And Hollow, Yes Honestly, Wodehouse Playhouse, John
Braine’s Queen Of A Distant Country. Murder At The Wedding, Brendon
Chase, Pig In The Middle, three series, Roll Over Beethoven, two series, Seal
Morning, Phillipa Vale, in Bergerac and Mrs Jessop in ten series of Woof!.
Liza also co starred in Shostakovich with Ben Kingsley and with Richard
Burton in Wagner.