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The Show
The celebrated Ealing comedy, The Ladykillers, comes to the stage in a hilarious and thrilling new adaptation by Graham Linehan (Father Ted) and directed by Sean Foley (The Play What I Wrote).
Featuring a stellar cast of some of the finest stage and screen comedy actors including BAFTA winner Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It) as Professor Marcus alongside James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley), Ben Miller (The Armstrong and Miller Show), Stephen Wight (Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer) and Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe, with Marcia Warren as the sweetly innocent Mrs Wilberforce.
The Ladykillers 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?
Gielgud Theatre
35 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
W1D 6AR
Directions:
Take the Bakerloo or Piccadilly line to Piccadilly Circus station and exit onto Shaftesbury Avenue. The theatre is approximately 5 minutes walk.
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| Audience Reviews of The Ladykillers |
| | Overall score: | | |  91% (based upon 5 reviews) | | | All The Ladykillers reviews are written by customers who have seen the show. Hotel Direct invites all theatre break guests to submit a review. | |
| | | Review score:   | 18/3/2012 | | | "Very entertaining, great set - if I hadn`t seen 39 Steps first I would have given it an excellent!"
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| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Review score: | 23/1/2012 | | "I haven`t laughed so much in a long time" | | "The acting was second to none. The sets were good and the atmosphere was amazing. All in all an excellent evening out."
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| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Review score: | 5/12/2011 | | | "Ladykillers was excellent. Great fun well acted and the stage effects were stunning. My friend and I also saw Warhorse whilst staying at the hotel. This was extremely well crafted but rather grim I felt and personally I preferred the Ladykillers. Warhorse was an experience but I was glad we saw ladykillers on the last night for it`s wonderful feelgood factor."
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