Learning on ScreenMonty Python’s Flying Circus [15/12/1970]
- Synopsis
- British television comedy series. Includes a sketch entitled ‘Hospital for Over-Actors’ which parodies Olivier. Dialogue is as follows:
Specialist: Most of these cases are pretty unpleasant. Nurse... (a nurse comes in and sedates Richard III) But the treatment does work with some people. This chap came to us straight from the Chichester Festival; we operated just in time, and now he’s almost normal.
- the patient’s screaming ‘a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse’ .
The sketch also features Eric Idle as Second Richard, a reformed Shakespearean actor. - Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Notes
- The script can be read at http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/overact.htm
- Keywords
- acting; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Olivier, Laurence (1907-1989)
Credits
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Archive
- Name
BFI National Archive
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7436 0165
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
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