Giving Notes

Synopsis: Television comedy sketch series written by Victoria Wood. In the two-minute skit ‘Giving Notes’ Julie Walters, as director Alma, gives notes from the stage to an unseen group of amateur actors - ‘But I can’t say this too often: it may be Hamlet but it’s got to be Fun, Fun Fun!'. An extract is as follows: ‘But Barbara - you will have to buckle down’. I mean Ophelia’s mad scene. ‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance’ - it’s no good just bunging a few herbs about and saying ‘Don’t mind me I’m a loony’. Yes?
Series: Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 8 Feb 1985 at 21:00 (Channel: BBC2)
Duration: 35 mins

Director

Geoff Posner

Producer

Geoff Posner

Writer

Victoria Wood

Cast

Julie Walters

Notes: The same sketch is performed by Christopher Luscombe in THE SHAKESPEARE REVUE. See catalogue entry for details of availability and format. The Victoria Wood sketch was included on a VHS compilation VICTORIA WOOD - AS SEEN ON TV now out of distribution (2006).
History: Episode 5 in the first series of the show.

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