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Boeing Boeing

5th July 2022 - 9th July 2022

 

London Classic Theatre return to Malvern with a hilarious new production of one of the greatest plays from the master of the French farce.

Paris, 1962. Bernard, a successful architect, has a very complicated love life.

His three fancées, Gloria, Gabriella and Gretchen, work for different airlines with different timetables. With the help of his maid, long-suffering Bertha, Bernard has somehow managed to keep all three women blissfully unaware of the others’ existence.

However, the arrival of an old friend from the provinces and the launch of a new super-fast jet propel Bernard’s carefully constructed plans into comic chaos.

Marc Camoletti’s award-winning play was a West End and Broadway hit and has delighted audiences worldwide for over 50 years.

London Classic Theatre are delighted to be touring Boeing Boeing, his signature hit, after recent successes with Private Lives and Absurd Person Singular.

Marc Camoletti was born in Geneva in 1923. He was a master of the ‘bedroom farce’ and his plays, which include Don’t Dress for Dinner and Ding Ding, have been performed in numerous languages in 55 countries. Camoletti was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, one of France’s highest honours.

“Works like a comic dream… I cannot remember experiencing an evening of such sheer, silly, comic pleasure”Evening Standard

“Will have you reaching for your hankie to mop up the tears of hysterical laughter” Mail on Sunday

“A perfectly controlled, geometrically planned disorder, confirming that farce is the quintessence of theatre” Guardian

 

Details

Start:
5th July 2022
End:
9th July 2022
Event Category:

Venue

Festival Theatre
Grange Road
Malvern, WR14 3HB

Other

Price:
Tues Eve & Wed Mat: £26.32, £22.96, £19.60, £16.24 & £12.88
Wed & THurs Eves & Sat Mat: £28.56, £25.20, £21.84, £18.48 & £15.12
Fri & Sat Eves: £30.80, £27.44, £24.08, £20.72 & £17.36
Show Times:
Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th July '22
Evenings at 7.30pm
Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm

Event Reviews

  • The View From The Stalls

    Generally perceived as a French invention, farce (which gets its name from the French language, more specifically from the French word meaning to stuff(!)) has equally become synonymous with a very British type of slapstick humour. In Boeing Boeing, we get the best of both worlds - a French comedy translated into English. Marc Camoletti's play is a real treat and was first presented to London audiences 60 years ago - a time when attitudes were certainly different from today.

    So we have Bernard (John Dorney) as a batchelor with a girl in every port. Or rather all in one port - his flat near Orly airport in Paris - as his trio of adoring ladies are all air hostesses (as they were called then!) each keeping to their tightly-run schedules and never encountering each other. One by one, we are introduced to the staff and coloured uniforms of three different airlines (only one of which still exists today!) - TWA's Gloria (Isabel Della-Porta), Italia's Gabriella (Nathalie Barclay) and Lufthansa's Gretchen (Jessica Dennis) who fly around the world and are each fiancéed to the unscrupulous Bernard. Add the mix Bertha (Jo Castleton), a very down-to-earth British housekeeper and cook and the boy from the sticks (actually Aix-en-Provence), Robert (Paul Sandys) and you have the makings of a situation comedy which pans out over a single day (3 acts - morning, afternoon and evening) as Bernard's carefully constructed plans come crashing down. For as we all know to our cost, schedules can change unexpectedly at the last minute… and you can be sure that all the doors in that swanky apartment are going to be made good use of…

    Poor innocent Robert, newly arrived in Paris, is left to try to coordinate the rapid comings and goings of the ladies but can he manage to keep them apart from each other and thereby keep Bernard's little secret going? Well you will know that answer to that obviously!

    It's slightly unfair to single out any member of this great cast but Paul Sandys was superb as the rather gullible (less so towards the end as he begins to embrace Bernard's dubious lifestyle!) Robert as was Jo Castleton, whose character and accent gave a very British angle to the play. That said, as an ensemble piece, they all worked very well together and were clearly enjoying themselves as much as the audience was enjoying them.

    If farce is entertainment through the highly exaggerated, the extravagant, the ridiculous, the absurd and the improbable, then this show gave everything that is required. Very funny from start to finish and another feather in London Classic Theatre's cap.

    Doors to manual…


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