Wishful Drinking

For anyone else, a stubbornly errant microphone might have taken some of the gloss of the performance. But Carrie Fisher responded to the calls of ‘We can’t hear you,’ in similar laconic style to all the questions she openly invited from the audience.

The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Carrie Fisher is iconic herself for playing Princess Leia in Star Wars. She regaled us with tales of celebrity, the Hollywood Babylon lives divorces and remarriages of her parents and their celebrity friends, behind the scenes of Star Wars, being merchandised by George Lucas, and her own battles with bipolar disorder and addiction, in a dry, earthy, entertaining stand-up autobiography.

While much of this story might have ultimately been much darker, Fisher’s superb comic timing kept the laughs flowing all night.

Hopefully the technical dysfunction issues have been resolved, so further Australian audiences can simply enjoy this engaging raconteur and her tales of family and celebrity dysfunction.

Neil Litchfield