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The Ladykillers

Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd, takes William Rose's screenplay for the classic Ealing Comedy and turns it into a stage play, first performed at London's Gielgud Theatre in 2011.

A sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a 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. The police are 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 Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 80
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780573112256
  • Genres
  • plays, comedy
  • Release date
  • 2012