The
Ladykillers
adapted
by Graham Linehan
Newcastle
People’s Theatre
Tuesday 18th to Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Photos:
Paula Smart
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Elderly, widowed Mrs Louisa Wilberforce
lives quietly with her parrot, General Gordon, in a genteel Victorian house in
1950s London. She is more than
pleased when the charming Professor Marcus rents her spare room to rehearse his
classical quintet. Little does she know that her guests are really a bunch of
oddball gangsters planning a bank heist.
This legendary Ealing black comedy is adapted
for the stage by Graham Linehan (co-writer of Father Ted).
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Photos:
Paula Smart
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Whether or not
you’re familiar with the macabre comedy of the original movie, you will love
the madcap drollery of Linehan’s surreal scenarios.
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Photos:
Paula Smart
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The
lavender-scented landlady’s lop-sided, chintz-filled folly of a home becomes a
madhouse as the deluded criminal mastermind and his gang of unhinged eccentrics
plot their doomed heist.
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Photos:
Paula Smart
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Co-directors Sean
Burnside and Matthew Hope say: “We look forward to transporting our audience to
visit this crazy, ramshackle corner of 1950s King’s Cross. If our rehearsals
are anything to go by they should enjoy seeing this unlikely bunch of hapless
villains thwarted by a fearless band of tea-fuelled old ladies.”
Tickets:
The Ladykillers runs from Tuesday
18th to Saturday 22nd July at 7.30pm. Tickets are
£13.50 (£11 conc) available from the Box Office on 0191 265 5020 or online at
peoplestheatre.co.uk.
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