Catherine Tate has revealed the relief of not having to ‘make people laugh’ as she stars in creepy and serious new West End play Enfield Haunting.
The comedian, 54, who shot to fame with her iconic BBC sketch show, spoke about her new role on This Morning on Friday.
She told presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary about her new role: “It’s lovely to tell a story, to not go out with the expectation that I’m there to make people laugh.”
However, she did admit that she would “never want to make people laugh” but enjoyed the variety of different genres and flexing her acting muscles.
“The play is an entertaining night out in my opinion, but there are no slogans in it,” she laughed.
Catherine Tate, 54, has revealed the relief of not having to ‘make people laugh’ as she performs in creepy and serious new West End play Enfield Haunting
The comedian spoke out after her new sitcom Queen of Oz (pictured) was ‘canceled after one season’
Catherine’s new play, in which she stars as a woman whose house is possessed by a poltergeist, has failed to impress the critics and is already ‘a candidate for the worst play of the year’.
Clive Davies from The times awarded the play one star and wrote: ‘Paul Unwin’s play, inspired by the infamous case of a poltergeist rattling around a house in the London suburbs in the 1970s, will surely be on the list of the worst plays of the year come. ‘
He added: ‘Forget the supernatural jiggery-pokery, what’s far-fetched here is that Catherine Tate and David Threlfall signed up for such a fiasco.’
Meanwhile, Chief Theater Critics at The TelegraphDominic Cavendish offered it two stars, and particularly disliked the ticket price.
The series comes after BBC sitcom The Queen Of Oz was canceled by the BBC after just one season TV Sune.
Catherine starred as Princess Georgina, a royal party girl sent to Australia by her father after being plastered all over the tabloids after going from one PR disaster to another.
MailOnline has contacted a BBC representative for comment.
The Doctor Who star’s ax came after a series of brutal cuts made by the broadcaster in their latest attempt to make £500 million in savings.
The comedian opened up about her new role on This Morning on Friday: ‘It’s lovely to tell a story, to not go out with the expectation that I’m there to make people laugh’
However, she did admit that she would ‘never want to make people laugh’ but enjoyed the variety of different genres and flexing her acting muscles (pictured with presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary)
Catherine rose to fame with her iconic BBC sketch show (pictured)
Catherine’s new play, in which she stars as a woman whose house is possessed by a poltergeist, has failed to impress critics and is already ‘a candidate for the worst play of the year’
Faced with high inflation and a two-year freeze on the price of a TV license, which provides the bulk of the BBC’s funding, the broadcaster is scrambling to cut costs.
In the TV series, the disruptive princes became involved in yet another scandal, so the king decided to send her to Australia to act as the country’s monarch.
He hoped that this unprecedented move would give his chaotic daughter a sense of responsibility, but in a comical twist, it didn’t go to plan.
The first series alone saw the new queen make her way through the land of Oz.
She caused unrest with fires caused by cigarette litter, false portraits printed on money and the untimely death of a kangaroo, which only made matters worse for the royal family.
The Doctor Who star starred as Princess Georgina in Queen of Oz, a royal party girl sent to Australia by her father after being plastered all over the tabloids