CALL ME ELIZABETH
Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe, you are cordially invited to an audience with Dame Elizabeth Taylor!
Call Me Elizabeth, written and performed by American actor Kayla Boye, gives her London debut as she portrays Hollywood royalty Elizabeth Taylor. The show will play at the Playhouse Theatre, London from 1st – 6th September 2026. Originally at the fringe in two 60 min parts this show will combine Part 1: ‘From Lassie to Cleopatra’ and Part 2: ‘From Burton To Humanitarian’ into one two hour performance.
The show is directed by Mike Weber and dramaturged by Olivier award winner Guy Masterson - who was twice Taylor’s nephew by marriage to Burton! The show is a biographical masterpiece, as close as anyone will get to the truth of her remarkable journey from Child Star to Aids Activist. In the show, Elizabeth reveals her innermost feelings about life, love, triumphs and tragedies, passion and compassion... She reflects on her tempestuous passion with Richard Burton which nearly killed them both, but which also transformed her to play perhaps her greatest role... AIDS activist.
Born to stardom, for a decade she was the darling of Hollywood, but her fairytale wedding to Nicky Hilton soured on their wedding night, she lost beloveds James Dean and Montgomery Clift to car crashes, she lost her 3rd husband - and the love of her life - Mike Todd, in a plane crash, she almost lost her own life to pneumonia, she lost her 5th and 6th husband - and passion of her life - Richard Burton, to alcoholism. She lost her best friend, Rock Hudson, to AIDS. Defiant, she became the voice that demanded that AIDS be taken seriously, that it was more than just “a Gay Disease”, and her influence led to activism, and her activism to acceptance and cure.
Where: The Playhouse Theatre, London W10 6RQ
When: Tuesday 1 September - Sunday 6 September 2026
Tickets: From £20
Venue details
- Address:
- The Playhouse Theatre
- Latimer Road
- London
- W10 6RQ