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Grove Park Theatre "Oh What a Lovely War": Drill Sergeant sketch.

Sgt Maj Huw Sayer gets the squad fell in and tries to teach them the rudiments of bayonet drill, with mixed results! His dialogue, some of it gibberish, is improvised, and a little different every show. The parasol breaking was a genuine accident (cue ad-lib), while the smoke machine performed more enthusiastically than expected... Rookies are: Tim Rogers, Stuart Guy, Paul Davies, Alison Cass and Jordan Tinniswood. The iconic costumes derive from Pierrot (Pete), a naïvely optimistic, hopelessly romantic character created in Paris by the comic playwright Molière in the 17th century and enthusiastically adopted as a clown into the Commèdia dell'Arte, which in the early 1700s formed the basis of the first British pantomimes. Pierrot shows were a popular form of seaside vaudeville of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at their height in the Edwardian and inter-war eras. Author Joan Littlewood saw such a show as the perfect ironic vehicle for a scathing satire on the attitudes which led to and sustained the madness that was the First World War - and it's still relevant today! For details of future plays and to book seats, contact box office at www.groveparktheatre.co.uk