’Allo, ’Allo, René’s back

Dec 19 2008 by Michael Green, Flintshire Chronicle

CHRISTMAS comedy comes to The Lowry at Salford Quays this year when a stage version of the hit TV series ’Allo ’Allo arrives for the festive period.

The live version, which runs until January 10, has been specially written for the stage by the show’s creators Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.

Calibre Productions, the producers behind the hugely successful Dad’s Army – The Lost Episodes, return to present a new stage adaptation of another hit British TV sitcom, brimming with all of the joyous mayhem and hilarious innuendos to be expected from the series.

Set in occupied France during World War Two, the hapless French café owner René and his wife Edith struggle to hide a priceless portrait – The Fallen Madonna ‘with ze Big Boobies’ – stolen by the Nazis and hidden in a sausage in their cellar.

Adding to René’s woes, the French Resistance force him to aid their persistent attempts to return two bumbling British airmen to England while simultaneously trying to keep his long-running affairs with his two waitresses from his wife.

Created for the BBC by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, ’Allo ’Allo! aired for 10 years from 1982 and comprised 85 episodes, which were filmed in a courtyard at Lynford Hall in Norfolk.

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