Dead Funny
From: Friday, 9th December 2005
To: Saturday, 21 January 2006
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Synopsis
The comedy of Benny Hill and Frankie Howard provides the impetus for this highly successful, very funny play about sex therapy, relationships and the peculiar English sense of humour. Best West End Play Award, Time Out Award. Winner. Nominated for Best Comedy in Laurence Olivier Awards. Contains scenes of nudity and strong language
Our Review:
14 December 2005
Things may get “curiouser and curiouser” in the Quarry Theatre’s Alice in Wonderland, but arguably the curiousest thing of all at the West Yorkshire Playhouse is Terry Johnson’s Dead Funny in the Courtyard Theatre. Provoking cries of “Wonderful!” and invocations of the Trades Descriptions Act in equal numbers, it certainly confounds the expectations of the audience.
Posters, programmes and pre-play music are dominated by Eric Morecambe, Frankie Howerd, Benny Hill and other British comedians of a certain vintage; hence some of the audience’s puzzlement to discover a savagely explicit comedy about the collapse of two marriages. Admittedly the events coincide with Benny Hill’s death and three of the four partners are members of the Dead Funny Society run by one of the couple’s neighbour, Brian.
Eleanor’s husband Richard (Nicolas Tennant) is apparently practising involuntary celibacy, with an aversion to naked flesh and physical...
Latest User Review
195.93.21.101) - 25 December 2005:
It certainly is undercooked. I saw it last week - it is a very average production of a very average play. The only think that is not at all average is Lysette Anthony - she's truly awful....
Creative
Terry Johnson (Author)
West Yorkshire Playhouse (Producer)
Matthew Lloyd (Director)
Simon Higlett (Design)
Mic Pool (Sound)
Joanna Town (Lighting)
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