Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones pops in to Sheringham Little Theatre
"I'm so excited to return to Sheringham after all this time."We did John Godber's Teechers and Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends and it was such great fun."It was a very special time in my life - I was 26 years old and during the run I also auditioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company."I was the bottom rung of a very long ladder, with one line in All's Well That Ends Well and lots of understudying."She has since appeared in a host of TV series including Fat Friends, Little Britain and Fat Friends, as well as the long-running BBC hit Gavin & Stacey, which she co-created and co-wrote with James Corden.
More recently, she has worked with Spiers on the BBC documentary From Merthyr with Love, looking at his home town in the Welsh valleys.Both were in the audience, alongside actress and theatre president Suranne Jones, to watch Spiers' son Lewes Roberts perform in a new play on Thursday at the 160-seat venue.Roberts has co-written The Case of the Three Eyed Elephant - which traces the origins of Sherlock Holmes - with Laurence Akers and actor Ryan Starling.The show is also being staged at Wolterton Hall, near Aylsham, on 26 July and Bylaugh Hall, near Dereham, on 27 July.Following the show, Jones said she was "absolutely gobsmacked by the talent and energy". "If anyone needed an advert for live theatre, this was it – a truly great experience."
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