Street star to play a comic

Coronation Street star Sally Lindsay is to appear in a new play about stand-up comics.

The actress, who plays Rovers Return landlady Shelly Unwin, will star in The Ho-Ho Club at London’s King's Head fringe theatre later this month.

Lindsay is no stranger to comedy. She started her career as a stand-up, but says she’ll never go back because ‘it’s too much like hard work’. She is also friends with Peter Kay and has appeared in Phoenix Nights and The Royle Family, as Twiggy’s girlfriend.

The Ho-Ho Club is set both on stage and backstage at a South London comedy club during the course of a wild Saturday night and revolves around five comedians - a television star, a comic desperately trying to reinvent himself, his ex partner now on the slide, the obnoxious compere/club owner and the fragile open spot.

The play has been written by the appropriately named Roy Smiles, who was behind the Goon Show tribute Ying Tong and is penning another play about Tony Hancock.

And it will be directed by Karl Howman, former star of Brush Strokes and now the face of Flash cleaning products.

The Ho-Ho Club runs at the King's Head, Islington, from September 26 to November 5. Click here for tickets

Published: 1 Sep 2006