Paul Riley, who played Winston in the smash hit BBC comedy series, is bringing The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot to the Beacon on September 6. The Bafta-Award winning star, who has a career in writing, writing and performing spanning 35 years, is no stranger to Inverclyde, and says he is looking forward to coming back. Paul, 54, said: "I've been to the Beacon before with An Evening with Paul Riley and also spent a week there with a National Theatre Production of The Wicker Man.
"I'm looking forward to it, I think the Beacon is a lovely space. It's beautiful, the rehearsal rooms look out right across the water." The actor is having great fun with his stand up show which is touring all over the country and Northern Ireland and last month even took it to New York.
Paul said: "I'm having a great laugh with it. I'm 55 next year, I'm entering the third act of my life and this show covers everything I've been through all my life, no two shows are ever the same. "I took the show to New York last month and it was mental, people came from Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto and LA to see the show.
It was absolutely brilliant. "They all love Still Game. It was the Netflix effect.
Still Game was my second act in that respect: all the hard work was done, everybody knows the show." Paul was part of the Still Game family from the very start, starring in the original stage play alongside creators Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, which toured Scotland, Ireland and Canada in 1999 - three years b.