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Musical Memories of Martyn Bennett at Birnam Arts
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Musical Memories of Martyn Bennett | Auditorium
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Allo Allo

Birnam Institute Players - 'Allo 'Allo

17 April 2025

"Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once."

René Artois, a reluctant member of the French Resistance, owns a small café in France during World War II. While his café is used as a safe house for British airmen, he also runs covert operations, flirts with his waitresses, and tries to keep his, erstwhile oblivious, wife, happy!

 

 

Please be aware: as the play is over 40 years old, and a farcical satire, set during wartime, 85 years ago. It is not what is now considered to be politically correct. It has sexual innuendo and caricatures of French, Italian, German and British stereotypes.
 
Based on the hugely successful and award-winning television series, this uproarious comedy embraces the adventures of the hapless cafe owner, and features all of your favourite TV characters, including René's tone-deaf wife Edith, Michelle of the Resistance, Gestapo officer, Herr Flick, his delectable secretary, Helga, as well as Officer Crabtree, LeClerc, Gruber, and, not forgetting, René’s dynamic waitressing duo, Yvette and Mimi!
 
The plot (we haven’t quite lost it…. yet!)
 
René and Edith have secreted a famous portrait stolen by the Nazis, into a sausage, in their cellar, which just happens to be where two British airmen have been hidden by the Resistance, until they can get them back to good ol’ blighty!
René finds himself caught up dealing with four problems – the schemes of the town's corrupt commandant, Colonel Kurt von Strohm; the sabotage plans of the Resistance leader Michelle Dubois; the efforts by Gestapo agent Herr Otto Flick to find the stolen painting and unmask Resistance members; and the love affairs with his waitresses - especially Yvette Carte-Blanche - each of which he must conceal from both his wife, and each of the other waitresses!
 
With communication with London through a wireless, disguised as a cockatoo and news that the Fuhrer is scheduled to visit the town, even more comic (if rather stressful) capers are in store for poor, beleaguered René and his café crew.
 
The writers
An unmissable stage-play of the much-loved comedy, written by hugely successful sitcom writing partnership, David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, including, between them, Dad’s Army, Are You Being Served? It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang, M'Lord?
 

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The Birnam Book Festival Committee were so pleased with how the new facilities in the Auditorium added to an extremely professionally presented event. The lighting allowed us to create staging to match the country’s leading book festival events, such as we’ve seen in Edinburgh.

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