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Actor
John Challis is playing on his home turf. The Malvern Festival Theatre,
where he's appearing in Alan Ayckbourn's Time and Time Again, is less
than an hour from his home in Herefordshire.
This is not just any old home but the rather splendid Wigmore Abbey.
You may have seen John and his wife discovering more about their home
in the BBC programme House Detectives.
"It's a wonderful place. It was quite hard to leave London after
30 years. We wanted to come to a special place. The other way to do
it is to have a little country retreat and keep a place in London
but we both decided we wanted to make a clean break and do the whole
thing. We also wanted something with history and romance attached
to it in a beautiful tranquil place." he told BBC Hereford and
Worcester's Katie Smith.
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and Marlene from Only Fools and Horses |
He says
he loves playing in Malvern because the audiences are so good, and
he's also most impressed with the way the theatre has been refurbished
- this is his first trip back since he appeared with Barbara Windsor
in Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton.
The play has reunited him with his wife from Only Fools and Horses,
Sue Holderness, who created the unforgettable Marlene (or as Boysie
would say Mar-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.)
If you miss John in this show he'll be back playing Abenaza in Aladdin,
the Christmas panto at the Birmingham hippodrome.
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