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An actress who played Laa-Laa in the Teletubbies for six years will be sharing her experiences of being in the TV programme in a one-woman show. Following two years of sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning creator and performer Nikky Smedley is taking the show on a nationwide tour, landing at Brighton Fringe in May, at The Actors theatre. Nikky played Laa-Laa –the yellow one – in the original series of Teletubbies for six years.
Confessions of a Teletubby is loosely based on Nikky’s best-selling book Over the Hills and Far Away - My Life as a Teletubby , which was published in 2022. Nikky in her LaaLaa filming days (Image: Supplied) The one-woman show promises “frank, hilarious and sometimes tragic stories of the human experience within a truly surreal world” and information that has been kept “under wraps for almost thirty years”. Confessions of a Teletubby is part of her first tour of solo appearances since the 1980s with “revelations, secrets and oodles of behind-the-scenes gossip from a global television phenomenon”.
The audience will hear how she got the job by dressing as a bistro table; what it was really like inside one of those – surprisingly large – Tubby suits; how the NooNoo really worked and why children loved the show so much. (Image: Supplied) Lamb Comedy Productions, run by programmer and producer Amy Mac, is "incredibly excited to have such a 90’s icon” in the line-up of this year’s Brighton Fringe programme at The Actor’s Theatre in Kemp Town. After the show, Nikky will be hosting a meet and greet with the audience downstairs in the Actors pub and offering a chance to buy a signed copy of her book.
Lamb Comedy Productions have been co-producing and programming comedy at Brighton Fringe since 2015, twice winning both Best Event and Best Venue categories at the Brighton Fringe Audience Choice awards. Confessions of a Teletubby comes to The Actors pub theatre on Princes Street, Brighton, on May 10 and 11 at 6pm..
