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In 2002, Penelope Keith was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey. She is only the third woman to have ever been honoured with this office since it was created more than 1,000 years ago. It is mainly a ceremonial position, but her duties include the enforcement of civil writs and collection of debts. She is ... the returning officer for Parliamentary constituencies in the county, and may declare the result. Audrey would be proud.
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Phillippa Troy (Penelope Keith) is a barrister who likes to win her cases. She's ... the author of a series of children's books. Phillippa is supported by her instructing solicitor Arthur Bryant (Eamon Boland), her clerk Steven (John Junkin) and her junior Susan (Emma Davies).
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The initial problem is that Jack is Ernest in town but not in the country, so Gwendolen's love is already on rocky ground, even before her redoubtable mother, Lady Bracknell (Penelope Keith), has her many words to say on the matter. Throw in Algernon Moncrieff, his fictitious (but extremely useful) friend Bunbury and another eminently young, posh lady Cecily Cardew (Jack's ward), let alone a nurse and a very old handbag and you have the recipe for a delightfully dotty comedy of Victorian manners amidst the cucumber sandwiches!
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Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life. This role earned Keith her first of two BAFTAs, the second being in 1978 for The Norman Conquests. One year after The Good Life's finale, Keith was the lead character in another BBC sitcom, To the Manor Born, a show that received audiences of up to 24 million. During the 1980s and 1990s, she appeared in six other sitcoms, in each the lead character. Since the 1990s, Keith has appeared rarely on television and does more theatre work.
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Penelope Keith is superb in the new touring production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Taking on the role of Lady Bracknell is a weighty matter in this “trivial comedy for serious people”, especially since its past inhabitants have included Dames Judi Dench and Edith Evans. Rather than trying to match these heavyweights on their own Wagnerian terms, Penelope Keith plays Lady Bracknell with a slightly meandering air. Her barbs and paradoxes arrive as part of the flow of her conversation, rather than as declamatory statements, and are all the funnier for it.
Penelope Keith, one of Britain’s best-loved actresses, was born to play Lady Bracknell. Her many previous theatre appearances include Time and the Conways, Blithe Spirit, Entertaining Angels and Relatively Speaking. Her numerous television series include the hugely successful The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
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