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JR Planche - The Garrick Fever

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23/02/2017

BBC Radio 4 Extra - JR Planche - The Garrick Fever

Excited locals expect great actor David Garrick as Hamlet, but a drunk scruff appears.

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.

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