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
Credits
- Director
- Miranda Howard-Williams
- Producer
- Sean Gleeson
- Cinematographer
- Humphrey Tauro
- Writer
- Sarah-Louise Hawkins
- Music
- Debbie Wiseman
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Plays
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Subjects
- Drama; Shakespeare
Notes
- 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.
Production Company
- Name
BBC Studios
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudios.com/ External site opens in new window
Archive
- Name
BoB
- bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk
- Web
- https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 3743 2345
- Address
- Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
330 Holborn Gate
1st Floor, Suite 120
London
WC1V 7QH - Notes
- Formerly a service from BUFVC, British Universities Film & Video Council
Distributor
- Name
BBC iPlayer
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Show Must Go on, The". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av80118 (Accessed 06 Oct 2024)