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JR Planche - The Garrick Fever

4 Extra Debut. Ballinasloe, 1745: Excited locals expect great actor David Garrick as Hamlet, but a drunk scruff appears. Stars Ben Crocker.

1745: the inhabitants of Ballinasloe are going mad for the great actor, David Garrick - but is the drunken scruff playing Hamlet up on stage, really him...?

Stars Ben Crocker as Decimus Gingle, Jonathan Lermit as Mr Hardup, Moira Buffini as Polly Hardup, Valerie Boothman as Lady O'Leary / Kitty, Robin Watson as Major Derrydown, Michael Gabe as Mr Undertone and Harry Reeder as the Stage Manager

JR Planche's one-act farce, adapted and directed by David Blount

First broadcast in BBC Radio 4's Thirty Minute Theatre in 1990.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Feb 201701:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Thu 23 Feb 201706:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 23 Feb 201713:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 23 Feb 201720:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 24 Feb 201701:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra