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-'''The Bed-Sitting Room''' is a satirical play by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[John Antrobus]]. It started off as a one-act play which was first produced at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. This was adapted to a longer play which was first performed in 1963 at London's [[Mermaid Theatre]], it was a critical and commercial hit, and was revived in 1967. A film based on the play was released in 1970, although this was less successful. The film was directed by [[Richard Lester]] and the cast included [[Ralph Richardson]], [[Arthur Lowe]], [[Rita Tushingham]], [[Peter Cook]], [[Dudley Moore]], [[Michael Hordern]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[Harry Secombe]] and Milligan himself.+'''The Bed-Sitting Room''' can refer to:
-The play is set in a post-apocalyptic London, nine months after World War III, which lasted for three minutes and forty-seven seconds - 'including the peace treaty'. Nuclear fallout is producing strange mutations in people; the title refers to the character Lord Fortnum, who finds himself transforming into a bed-sitting room (other characters turn into a parrot and a wardrobe). The plot concerns the fate of the first child to be born after the war. +* [[The Bed-Sitting Room (play)]], a play by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[John Antrobus]]
 +* [[The Bed-Sitting Room (film)|''The Bed-Sitting Room'' (film)]], a film based on the play
-The film is set on the third or fourth anniversary of a war which lasted two hours and twenty-eight minutes.[[http://www.phespirit.info/comedy/notes/the_bed_sitting_room.htm]] The absurdity of the film extends even to the settings. One scene is shot besides the pile upon which a British pottery firm has tossed its damaged wares for centuries. The joke is that an actor is looking for a dish that isn't broken. Another set of the film is a mock triumphal arch made of appliance doors, beneath which a Mrs. Ethel Shroake, the closest in line for the throne, is mounted on a horse. +{{disambig}}
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-''The Bed-Sitting Room'' can be compared with Milligan's previous ''[[The Goon Show|Goon Show]]'', but with a savage, cynical and even more surreal edge, and an existential despair; one critic memorably described it as being 'like [[Samuel Beckett]], but with better jokes'. It may have been in part, lampooning [[Aldous Huxley]]'s pessimistic [[1948]] novel, ''Ape and Essence''. +
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