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Whisky Galore - The Making of the Fillum archiveIn a house on the Hebridean island of Barra, celebrated writer Compton Mackenzie - Monty to his friends - enjoys a glass of whisky illicitly salvaged during the recent war from the wreck of the SS Politician. The cameras are standing by to film an adaptation of Whisky Galore! his fictionalised account of those events, in which the Politician is thinly disguised as the SS Cabinet Minister and the island reborn as Todday. But the film version is already in crisis: its director Sandy Mackendrick has torn up the screenplay, and Monty has reservations of his own. Together with the producer, the across Joan Greenwood, Monty's secretary and his great-nephew, they assemble in his study to put a hasty rewrite to the test. They assign parts and soon all six are energetically re-enacting the story. Monty himself reads the role of Captain Waggett, the English Home Guard commander who is outraged when the islanders help themselves to the stricken ship's cargo and alerts Custom and Excise. Starved of their beloved whisky by wartime shortages, the men of Todday exercise all their Celtic cunning in hiding their unexpected bounty from the excisement, with Waggett's humiliation culminating in a helter-skelter car chase across the sands...

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Adapted by: Giles Croft (adapted from Compton Mackenzie's original book and the screenplay by Mackenzie and Augus MacPhail)

Archive listings for Whisky Galore - The Making of the Fillum

Work type: Play.

T507040323

Producer BV Productions. Producer Nottingham Playhouse. Adapted by Giles Croft. Director Giles Croft. Design Helen Fownes-Davies. Sound Adam McCready. Lighting Richard G Jones. Performer Karen Drury (Joan Greenwood). Performer Richard Shelton (Sandy Mackendrick). Performer Robert Austin (Compton Mackenzie). Performer Sally Armstrong. Performer Tim Bryn Smith. Performer Matthew Cullum.
26 Mar 07 to 31 Mar 07Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool :: V536
listing details L433155431
19 Mar 07 to 24 Mar 07Theatre Royal Windsor, Windsor :: V742
listing details L1277625978
5 Mar 07 to 10 Mar 07Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne :: V665
listing details L0351436637
26 Feb 07 to 3 Mar 07Hackney Empire, Outer London :: V309
listing details L1995783421
20 Feb 07 to 24 Feb 07Theatre Royal, Glasgow :: V623
listing details L1313598060
2 Feb 07 to 17 Feb 07Playhouse, Nottingham :: V457
listing details L01229366504
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