Sherrie Hewson Interview: Her Love for the Theatre Royal
Title
Sherrie Hewson Interview: Her Love for the Theatre Royal
Date
11 January 2018
Description
Oral history interview with Sherrie Hewson, star of 2017 Pantomime 'Beauty and the Beast' and Nottingham born and bred.
What's the story?
Sherrie Hewson is one of our most well-known actors and presenters. Her TV work includes roles on Coronation Street, Crossroads, Emmerdale and Benidorm.
She has been a panellist on lunchtime chat show Loose Women and in 2015, she came sixth place in Celebrity Big Brother.
Sherrie was born in Nottingham growing up in Burton Joyce in a show-business family. Her father was a singer and her mother was a model. She began performing at the age of six, touring the UK's theatres in revues and later was granted a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
In this interview she describes her love of Nottingham and the Theatre Royal which she describes as "the love of my life". In particular she recalls our famous rake stage and how her mother would coped with it when modelling on the stage:
Well, I’ve absolutely loved the Theatre Royal and if I never do another pantomime, this will always be in my heart because Nottingham is, although I moan, everybody I meet I go “why has that gone?”, “where’s that gone?”, because I’m very passionate about Nottingham.
I started at the Arts Theatre with Su Pollard, when we were only about 6 or 7, and the Arts Theatre was struggling. Where I started, before I went to RADA, was the Burton Joyce Players, in the village hall in Burton Joyce. So they came to see me and I said I’d be a patron for them and I would have loved to have gone to that village hall and gone “Wow!” because I did The Seventh Veil there with the vicar and the vicar’s son is Richard Williams, who was The Old Grey Whistle Test and everything comes round, doesn’t it?
So, as I say, my memories just go on and on and on and I said to everybody when I did the radio, I can’t even stop, because there’s too many things here and I’ve just loved it and I will come back now and try and be part of the Burton Joyce Players and maybe help the Arts Theatre and certainly go to the Playhouse, but the love of my life is the Theatre Royal, because this is where I was born, really, virtually, at 3. I might have been 4 – exaggerating – I might have been 4 – on that stage. And what I remember most of all is the rake. I remember my mother, as she was a modelling, walking like that, and so she was obviously balancing: her heels would have been like that, you see. And, so yes, she had great fondness for the Theatre Royal. So my mum, she’ll be watching and she’ll know that I’m here. And my dad, he loved it here as well. So, yes. I’ve enjoyed it very much. Very, very much.
She has been a panellist on lunchtime chat show Loose Women and in 2015, she came sixth place in Celebrity Big Brother.
Sherrie was born in Nottingham growing up in Burton Joyce in a show-business family. Her father was a singer and her mother was a model. She began performing at the age of six, touring the UK's theatres in revues and later was granted a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
In this interview she describes her love of Nottingham and the Theatre Royal which she describes as "the love of my life". In particular she recalls our famous rake stage and how her mother would coped with it when modelling on the stage:
Well, I’ve absolutely loved the Theatre Royal and if I never do another pantomime, this will always be in my heart because Nottingham is, although I moan, everybody I meet I go “why has that gone?”, “where’s that gone?”, because I’m very passionate about Nottingham.
I started at the Arts Theatre with Su Pollard, when we were only about 6 or 7, and the Arts Theatre was struggling. Where I started, before I went to RADA, was the Burton Joyce Players, in the village hall in Burton Joyce. So they came to see me and I said I’d be a patron for them and I would have loved to have gone to that village hall and gone “Wow!” because I did The Seventh Veil there with the vicar and the vicar’s son is Richard Williams, who was The Old Grey Whistle Test and everything comes round, doesn’t it?
So, as I say, my memories just go on and on and on and I said to everybody when I did the radio, I can’t even stop, because there’s too many things here and I’ve just loved it and I will come back now and try and be part of the Burton Joyce Players and maybe help the Arts Theatre and certainly go to the Playhouse, but the love of my life is the Theatre Royal, because this is where I was born, really, virtually, at 3. I might have been 4 – exaggerating – I might have been 4 – on that stage. And what I remember most of all is the rake. I remember my mother, as she was a modelling, walking like that, and so she was obviously balancing: her heels would have been like that, you see. And, so yes, she had great fondness for the Theatre Royal. So my mum, she’ll be watching and she’ll know that I’m here. And my dad, he loved it here as well. So, yes. I’ve enjoyed it very much. Very, very much.
Type
Oral interview
Location of item
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall
Rights
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall
Contributor
Interviewers: Diane Jones & Jennifer Sherwood
Transcriber: David Chilton
Transcriber: David Chilton
