Blackadder Goes Forth by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Directed by Yvonne Patterson

Production dates: Monday 9^th June – Saturday 14^th June (inc. a matinee)

The Play

Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton we find the recurring characters of Blackadder, Baldrick and George placed in a trench during World War 1.  We follow their various doomed attempts to escape from the trenches to avoid death under the misguided command of General Melchett.

Winner of the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Series in 1989.

Blackadder Goes Forth is the Bancroft Player’s second visit into the life of Blackadder as we put on a very successful production of Blackadder The Tudor Years in 2019.

Come along and be a part of this brilliantly written, funny but extremely thought provoking play.

BREAKDOWN OF CHARACTERS

BLACKADDER – SHARP WITTED, SARCASTIC AND CONTINUALLY AMAZED AT THE STUPIDITY AROUND HIM

GEORGE – DIM, CHEERFUL, VERY ‘JOLLY HOCKEY  STICKS’ CHILDLIKE

BALDRICK – LIVES IN HIS OWN WORLD, DIM, STRANGE BUT SINCERE

MELCHETT – POMPOUS, VERY BRITISH OFFICER CLASS

DARLING – ANOTHER DIM CHARACTER!

BOB – TRYING HARD TO FIT IN AS A MAN

MARY – EFFICIENT, PRACTICAL THEN A TOUCH OF FLIRTYNESS

SMITH/HAIG –  

SMITH –  AS PER SCRIPT – COMEDY MASH UP OF BRITISH AND GERMAN, SEEMINGLY UNAWARE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING   

HAIG – UPPER CLASS, STIFF UPPER LIP BRITISHNESS

AUDITION PIECES

1.MAJOR STAR – SCENE 1 PAGE 1 to TOP OF 4

BALDRICK​​, BLACKADDER​, GEORGE

2. PAGE 4 to END OF SCENE

MELCHETT, BLACKADDER​, BOB

3. SCENE 4 PAGE 11 to 15 (end of Scene 6)

DARLING, ​​BLACKADDER, ​MELCHETT​, GEORGE

4. GENERAL HOSPITAL – SCENE 2 PAGE 26 to end of Scene 2.  (to incorporate Smith)

BALDRICK​​, MARY​​, GEORGE​BLACKADDER​, SMITH

6. SCENE 5 PAGE 35 to End of Scene on Page 37

MARY​​, SMITH, ​​BLACKADDER​, GEORGE ​BALDRICK​, DARLING

7. SCENE 6 PAGE 37 to END of SCENE

DARLING​, BLACKADDER​, MARY

8.  SCENE 9 FROM END of 45 to END of 46

MELCHETT, ​DARLING​, SMITH​​BLACKADDER

9. GOOD-BYEEE – SCENE 4 PAGE 63 TO WHERE HAIG HANGS UP PHONE

BALDRICK​, BLACKADDER​, HAIG​​GEORGE

*You do not have to be a member of the Bancroft Players to audition, but you will be expected to join if you are cast.

Scripts are available to borrow behind the box office.

Please get in touch with the director if you have any questions: yvonne_singer@hotmail.co.uk

Audition Dates

Rehearsals

Mondays and Wednesdays