The Ladykillers

Elderly, widowed Mrs Louisa Wilberforce lives quietly with her parrot, General Gordon, in a genteel Victorian house in 1950s London. She is more than pleased when the charming Professor Marcus rents her spare room to rehearse his classical quintet. Little does she know that her guests are really a bunch of oddball gangsters planning a bank heist.

Based on the legendary and much-loved 1955 Ealing comedy film, this stage adaptation by Graham Linehan (co-writer of Father Ted) premiered in Liverpool to rave reviews in 2011, transferring for an extended run in London’s West End, with The Guardian hailing it as “a pitch-perfect slapstick farce”.