GORDEN Kaye, infamous as Ren in the BBC's Allo Allo, is trading in his French accent to roam around the world in Travels With My Aunt, soon to appear at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool.

He even yearns to play a role that would make Ren blush.

Travels With My Aunt is an adaptation of a Graham Greene novel and is different because only four actors play 29 different parts.

All four of them play Henry Pulling but Gorden has more than half of the play to himself, playing Henry as well as his Aunt Augusta.

He said: "It is very understandable - the writing is funny to start with and the adaptation is very good.

"Not all of the book is in the play, but all of the play is in the book. It's very different, unlike anything else I've ever done before.

"And there's no time for coffee and a cigarette once the play has started.

"All four of us are on stage for the entire two halves of the show.

"It's not that the play's particularly gruelling, but it is a feat of memory.

"We're even expected to sing - unaccompanied - which wasn't anywhere in the contracts!

"Henry is quite a different person by the end of the play, compared to the start when he's a nerdy ex-bank manager.

"Aunt Augusta is a bit of an old biddy. She's known criminals, gangsters and all sorts of people.

"It's good fun but the play is not a farce."

Gordon also has his eye on a part which would make Ren blush, as he revealed: "I'm hoping to get into the Rocky Horror Show as the narrator.

"I would like to play it and I think they would like me to play it as well. We'll just have to wait and see."

Travels With My Aunt arrives at the Grand from May 18 to 23. There are shows at 8pm on 18 and 7.30pm every other night.

Matinees are on the Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm.

Tickets cost from £8 with the usual concessions and are available from the box office on 290190.

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