The Ladykillers
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Opened Dec 7, 2011
Closed Feb 18, 2012
Opened Dec 7, 2011
Closed Feb 18, 2012
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Graham Linehan adapts the celebrated Ealing comedy, The Ladykillers, directed by Sean Foley.
In this black comedy, a sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits.
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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Graham Linehan's stage adaptation of the classic1955 comedy, The Ladykillers, now at the Gielgud Theatre, is broadly appealing, full of recurring gags and lots of physical comedy. Yet, ultimately the enterprise, directed by Sean Foley, is slightly less satisfactory than it should be.
Peter Capaldi plays the reptilian Professor Marcus -- first revealed to the audience in Nosferatu-like silhouette -- the head of a criminal gang who hides out in the Kings Cross house of kindly Mrs. Wilberforce (Marcia Warren) under the pretense of being members of a string quintet.
While the film celebrates the triumph of something fundamentally English in a murky post-war world, Linehan also brings mor[...]