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Sudbury - Quay date for likely lad Rodney.

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From: Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England)
Date: 20071115
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An actor best-known for his part as Bob in the TV series The Likely Lads, brings his one-man show to Sudbury's Quay Theatre on November 23 and 24.

Rodney Bewes, who played Bob in the hit TV sitcom, will perform an adaptation of Jerome K Jerome's book, On the Stage - and Off, which premiered at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The play enacts the true story of Jerome's life as a jobbing actor in the 1880s.

He fights his way around the world of the late-Victorian theatre, battling with forbidding landladies and unsympathetic managers, touring with second-and ...

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