Former CASUALTY actor Tony Marshall is appearing in theatre next month.
He will reprising his role as Charlie Williams in ‘Eh Up! Me Old Flowers’ that he performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2022. It now gets it London premiere at the White Bear Theatre from 9th – 20th September.
Written and directed by Chris England, the play tells the story of Charlie Williams, the first black comedian to hit the circuit in the 70’s and paved the way for others to follow in his footsteps. It wasn’t only as an entertainer that Charlie was a pioneer who broke down barriers. He was one of the very few black professional footballers in the 1950s, playing for Doncaster Rovers.
Playwright Chris England said: ‘I was particularly drawn to Charlie’s remarkable life story because I too grew up in a mining town, not too far from Doncaster, and the great passions of my life have been football and comedy. So Charlie’s ups and downs always seemed to belong to one of our own.’
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