Large signs Jeff Stewart AKA The Bill’s Reg Hollis

Leicestershire playwright Keith Large has put the finishing touches to his summer production by recruiting a headline actor.

Jeff Stewart, known to millions as Reg Hollis in The Bill for 24 years, is joining Laughs from Leicestershire to perform in Keith’s main play, Prima Donna Island, at Buxton, Cambridge, London and Edinburgh.

It’s a dream return to the stage for Stewart after 30 years, and football-fan Large, labels him as his ‘top signing’.

“Jeff turned down Shakespeare to join us,” he says. “We auditioned him in Loughborough and haven’t publicised his forthcoming appearances anywhere yet.”

“The guy’s been absolutely fantastic, a real character and a team player,” says Large, who has three plays also including Whine Fever and The Ticket Collector about to go under the national spotlight.

“I am really excited about the next few weeks. Altogether I have a fantastic, upbeat and very positive cast and, as it says on the tin, we’re having lots of laughs, both on and off the stage.”

Laughs from Leicestershire will be presenting three one-act plays at Buxton on July 13, Cambridge July 22, London, August 1st and on the famous Prince’s Street in Edinburgh from August 15-21.

Keith Large and his cast.