Double helping of Porridge will raise cash for the Concordia
CLASSIC BBC sitcom Porridge is being turned into a stage show for a special performance at the Concordia Theatre, in Hinckley.
The show, a fund-raiser for the theatre, runs from February 21-26.
Written Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, Porridge is usually ranked among the greatest British sitcoms of all time.
Broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, the show ran for three series, and included two Christmas specials and a feature film. It starred Ronnie Barker as wily Slade Prison inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher and Richard Beckinsale as his naive cellmate, Lenny Godber.
The stage show features the episodes Pardon Me, in which Fletcher pushes for a free pardon for elderly inmate Blanco, and No Peace for the Wicked, in which Fletcher, craving some peace and quiet, engineers a spell in solitary confinement.
A Concordia Theatre spokesman said: “Looking for something different? Two episodes of this iconic and critically acclaimed British sitcom will be staged when Norman Stanley Fletcher, who engages himself in all manner of scrapes with the warders and his fellow prisoners at HM Prison Slade, will be doing a fund-raising production for Concordia!
“The theatre auditorium will create the impression of a TV studio with the audience being involved in an immersive live performance of two of the funniest episodes ever to have been broadcast of this classic TV comedy.
“Come and join in the fun and at the same time, help Fletcher in his fundraising exercise.”
This amateur production is produced by special arrangement with Very Serious Comedy Ltd.
Tickets are £10, available from: