Serving Up A Laugh

Harlequin, Dromio, Figaro, Jeeves, Baldrick, and now One Man, Two Guvnors’ Francis and Alfie: comic servants spring up in a variety of guises and serve a variety of roles, ultimately to expose the pomposity of their master and society’s mores. Discussion, readings and clips celebrate this familiar comic figure.

With guests:

Tony Robinson (Baldrick in Blackadder, writer and presenter),

Edith Hall (Professor of Classics and English at Royal Holloway College),

and Cal McCrystal (Physical Comedy Director on One Man, Two Guvnors)

 

and from the NT Acting Company:

David Benson (Gareth in One Man, Two Guvnors),

David Fynn (Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer),

Oliver Jackson (Diggory in She Stoops to Conquer),

and Cush Jumbo (Miss Neville in She Stoops to Conquer).

 

Chaired by Peter Shaw.

Tickets £6 (£5 concessions)

Running time: 90mins

Serving Up A Laugh finished on: 24 March 2012