The Bed Sitting Room Spike Milligan

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The bed sitting room spike milligan.

Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise. The bed sitting room is a 1969 british comedy film directed by richard lester starring an ensemble cast of british comic actors and based on the play of the same name it was entered into the 19th berlin international film festival. The bed sitting room was a big hit as a stage play in london s west end for several years in the 1960s. Set in post nuclear holocaust england where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins amongst endless heaps of ash piles of broken crockery and brick muddy plains and heaps of dentures and old boots.

The bed sitting room was a big hit as a stage play in london s west end for several years in the 1960s. However it made little impact on london s theatrical scene for over a year when it was adapted to a longer play and bernard miles put it on at the mermaid. Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise. Ethel shroake long live mrs.

Tweedy lord ralph richardson post atomically mutates into a bed sitting room while sixtyish uncombed michael hordern uses the state of general unrest to get into bed with. I guess someone figured that if it had been such a hit on the stage it couldn t fail as a movie. With rita tushingham ralph richardson peter cook dudley moore. Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise.

A warning to persons of sensitive disposition they should stay away from spike milligan s the bedsitting room if seeing margaret thatcher as a lifeless parrot a diplomat being pushed round in a mobile lavatory or lady diana doing interval sketches does not appeal stay at home. Patriotically singing god save mrs. The bed sitting room was a big hit as a stage play in london s west end for several years in the 1960s. Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise.

The bed sitting room was a big hit as a stage play in london s west end for several years in the 1960s. Coauthored by the goon show genius spike milligan this post apocalypse omnibus of sketches suggests john osborne s archie rice rewriting an absurdist play by gombrowicz.