Show Must Go on, The

Synopsis: Detective series set in the 1950s, loosely inspired by the character created by GK Chesterton. Father Brown (played by Mark Williams) offers to play the Friar in a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing being put on by the local theatre company, the Kembleford Players. His friend Isabel takes over as Beatrice after the leading lady, Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Maidland, breaks her leg in a fall while Chief Inspector Sullivan soon joins Brown on stage when the actor playing Benedick is murdered - and takes over the dead man’s role.
Series: Father Brown
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 17 Feb 2023 at 13:45 (Channel: BBC1)
Duration: 44 mins

Director

Miranda Howard-Williams

Producer

Cinematographer

Writer

Music

Cast

Sonita Henry	Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Maidland (Beatrice)
Tom Chambers	Chief Inspector Sullivan (Benedick)
Helena Barlow	Penny Briggs (Hero)
Mark Williams	Father Brown (Friar Francis)
Sam Phillips	Patrick Maidland

General: While a few lines from the Shakespeare play are heard during the rehearsal scenes, the episode concludes with a snippet from Scene 4 Act 1 and ends with Act 5 Scene 4.
History: This was the seventh episode of Series 10. The episode premiered online on BBC iPlayer on 6 January 2023, ahead of terrestrial broadcast.

Shakespeare, "Show Must Go on, The". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av80118 (Accessed 26 Dec 2024)

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