Lewis Jones has written the Bookend column in this week’s issue of the Spectator. Here it is for readers of this blog:
When, during rehearsals for a production of Lorca, Celia Imrie expressed an opinion about a bit of business, a fellow player said to her: ‘And what would you know about playing Lorca? You are nothing but a mere TV comedienne.’ She slapped the impertinent thespian’s face, and quite right too. Though proud to bill herself as ‘Light Ent’, Celia Imrie is more accurately a great comic actor, not only in Acorn Antiques and Coronation Street, but also in The School for Scandal and The Way of the World.
Other slaps, if not literal ones, are administered elsewhere in The Happy Hoofer. But it would be wrong to call Imrie a slapper, and her slapees remain decently nameless.
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