Paul Merton's wife needed an actor to play a neurotic comic. She didn't have to look far … /

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Suki Webster's Edinburgh Fringe play explores the relationship between performers and their obsessive fansWhen Suki Webster was looking for an actor to seem in her two-hander debut play about the neuroses of an embittered fictional British comedian,she decided to give a newcomer a chance. That newcomer was her husband, Paul Merton, and who opened alongside Webster in his first lead acting role in a comic drama at the Edinburgh festival fringe this weekend."I am having a ball doing this," said 57-year-feeble Merton. "I find the whole thing fascinating. Each time we perform the play it has been different. I am enjoying figuring out the way the lines work best."Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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