Celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers comes to life on stage in a new adaption by Graham Linehan and directed by Sean Foley
The original cast includes Peter Capaldi as Professor Marcus along with James Fleet, Ben Miller, Stephen Wight and Clive Rowe with Marcia Warren as the sweetly innocent Mrs Wilberforce.
The Ladykilelrs is a classic black comedy; a sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing…
Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided house of sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. The villains plot to involve her unwittingly in Marcus’ brilliantly conceived heist job. The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, General Gordon, to help her, Mrs W. is alone with five desperate men. But who will be forced to face the music?
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The 1955 film version of The Ladykillers was an atmospheric, jet-black comedy, largely seen as a parable in which the right and proper morals of the Establishment…
8/12/2011