Well, it's back! In 2007, OTTC took the Arts Centre stage by storm, with its first venture into the world of triple bill sitcom, adapted for the stage. Back then, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers and Hancock's Half Hour had the audiences rolling in the aisles! This time round, we're ringing the changes with some more of classic British Sitcoms, adapted for the Swindon stage! Blackadder The second chapter of the historical sitcom transports us to Elizabethan England and to a particularly cunning member of the Queen's court, a certain Edmund, bastard great-great grandson of the Blackadder of season 1. But while the two may be related, this Blackadder turns out to be an altogether different beast, making up for what he lacks in royal lineage and incompetence with a biting wit, greed and cowardly cunning. (From the BBC Comedy website: Blackadder (www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder2).) Only Fools and Horses Voted by BBC viewers as the best sitcom of all time, we'll be bringing you the comic tales of Del Boy and Rodders. Derek Trotter, or Del Boy, is a loveable Cockney rogue and wheeler dealer. He spent the 1980s and early 1990s slaving away in the Peckham badlands with his market stall creaking under the weight of dodgy gear. Rodders, as he is affectionately known by his big brother, has stuck by Del through thick and thin. After leaving school with two GCEs in Art and Maths, he was expelled from Art College for dabbling with the dreaded weed. Without much going for him Rodney managed to rise to the heady heights of Financial Director of Trotters Independent Traders. (From the BBC Comedy website: Only Fools and Horses (www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onlyfools).) Yes Minister A bedrock programme in the UK comedy structure, Yes Minister embodied the early 1980s attitude to authority and politics as a gently hypocritical world filled with doubletalk. The series followed Right Honorable James Hacker MP, Minister for Administrative Affairs, and his attempts to make officialdom and administration make sense. He did this whilst pushing his own self-serving agenda, and keeping his head above any nasty political waters. Throughout his career, he was up against Whitehall's Sir Humphrey Appleby, unflappable symbol of a machine that has no gears, only brakes. Three series were made between 1980 and 1984, before Jim Hacker achieved real power in Yes Prime Minister. (From the BBC Comedy website: Yes Minister (www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/yesminister).)

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