Friday
13th February 2004
Listen
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of 'Allo 'Allo |
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Your
chance to enjoy the stage play based on the hit TV sitcom 'Allo 'Allo.
It's on at the Palace Theatre in Redditch |
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David
Croft had already had one hit sitcom set in WW2 - the evergreen Dad's
Army written with Jimmy Perry - when he came up with the idea of 'Allo
'Allo, this time written with Jeremy Lloyd.
The serious drama series it parodied - Secret Army - is long forgotten,
but 'Allo 'Allo is till popular, and still a regular feature of TV
schedules.
The Palace Theatre is presenting the stage version of the exploits
of RenΓ©, his harem of girlfriends, the French resistance and
their struggle with the worringly lovable German occupying forces.
In
the play RenΓ©, the hapless cafΓ© owner in war-torn
occupied France, and his wife, Edith, struggle to keep for themselves
a priceless portrait stolen by the Nazis and kept in a sausage in
their cellar.
RenΓ© is hiding two British airmen and is endeavouring, with
the help of the Resistance, to repatriate them.
However, communications with London through a wireless disguised
as a cockatoo add to the many embarrassments he endures in the company
of his patrons.
Matters come to a head with the news that the FΓΌhrer is to
visit the town and the cafΓ© becomes filled with tricksters
intending to impersonate Hitler before the event.
The play is being performed by the Rowney Green Players.. so listen
carefully, they will say zis only once.
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