Ray Cooney

It was kind of like mixed into whatever the panto had been about, but then also tell the story of the village throughout the year.

you know, nefarious things that have been happening in the village, you know, who, who, who had an affair with who all of that sort of stuff went into the shanty, which I just thought was really, it was just, there was just something so, um, it was like a Ray Cooney farce.

It was like something from the sixties or seventies, like this sort of like carry on moment of like, of like, but like where then folk also met it as well.

It was really, really mad.

You know, there, there was a lot of theater when I was growing up.

Mom did a lot of, uh, farces in the West End, lots of Ray Cooney farces, until I told her that I couldn't bear her coming in on her husband and his male assistant pulling her, his trousers anymore and doing that.

[laughs] One more time.

Like, I'm 16 now.

And I managed to get a job selling ice creams at the Whitehall Theatre on a farce.

Ray Cooney farce called Run For Your Wife.

I know it,

yeah.

Yeah, starring Ray Cooney starred in it at the time.

Henry McGee from Benny Hill fame and the Sugar Puffs adverts, etc.

Dennis Ramsden, who was a very famous character actor.