When faced with the 65 year old former beauty and one-time Bond girl in the darkness of Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms you could be forgiven for assuming you were looking at some kind of undead drag queen.
But the shock quickly passes and in moments the audience is carried away by a lively and energetic one-woman show loosely telling her life story interspersed with small skits based on important events. Far from the confident, assured movie icon of legend, Ekland is a bundle of nerves and throws herself around the stage in a performance that, while theatrical, is endearing and entertaining.
She’s had quite a life and you’re there through the good and the bad; her discovery in Stockholm by 20th Century Fox, the whirlwind romance and marriage to Peter Sellers, her time with Rod Stewart as the “Posh and Becks” of the 70s, Bond and more. The fractured narrative, sometimes jumping back and forth between decades and marriages, is occasionally confusing but never boring.
Despite some references to pill popping and boozing, this is generally fun rather than scandalous but still manages to fit in a few memorable revelations; Sellers’ cruel behaviour towards his daughter after the divorce, and the Bond crew staying in a local brothel during filming. She is also refreshingly honest on her less than stellar movie career.
Not essential, but an entertaining insight into the life of a former movie icon and at only an hour just the right length to fit it in between other shows.
3/5 
Scott McKellar
