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Bewes is a charming Jerome ; REVIEW ON THE STAGE AND OFF RODNEY BEWES LichfieldGarrick

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From: Birmingham Mail
Date: 20080222
Author:ROGER CLARKE

RODNEY Bewes will probably always be remembered for The Likely Lads but if you want a real treat catch his one man shows.

We have had Three Men in a Boat and he returns to Jerome K Jerome with On The Stage And Off - The Brief Career Of A Would-be Actor, the Walsall-born writer's autobiographical account of his attempts at becoming a Victorian actor.

Bewes plays Jerome along with all the characters he encounters from actor-managers to landladies, low comedians to gargantuan leading ladies.

Amid the humour there is sadness - Mad Matt the tortured actor who wanted to play Romeo giving his ...

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