Nicholas ([info]nhw) wrote,
@ 2008-02-29 20:23:00
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February Books 20) Improbable Frequency
20) Improbable Frequency, by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter

[info]pgmcc very kindly sent me the script for this excellent musical comedy, set in 1941 and concerning the adventures of an innocent code-breaker sent to Dublin by British intelligence, who ends up dealing with John Betjeman, Myles na gCopaleen, Erwin Schrödinger, and Ireland's secret weapon. Some great one-liners - the staff of the British Embassy sing a number with the title "Be Careful Not To Patronise The Irish"; Schrödinger unsuccessfully pursues a woman who scolds him "Don't you wave your filthy particles at me". I do wish I'd been able to see the stage version, and perhaps the sound track will become commercially available some time. Anyway, [info]pgmcc, thanks for letting me experience it even through the rather flattened medium of dead trees.



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[info]scattyme
2008-03-01 10:42 am UTC (link)
I was lucky enough to get to see the stage version while I was visiting Dublin in 2005. I thought it was fantastic. I have friends who went to see it multiple times.

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[info]inuitmonster
2008-03-01 12:59 pm UTC (link)
I saw it and liked it a lot, though in retrospect I wonder if maybe it was not as funny as it thought it was. The best bit was when Schrodinger's mad scientist machine in DIAS was changing the world in improbably ways. Indeed.

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[info]pgmcc
2008-03-02 01:47 am UTC (link)
I'm delighted you found the play interesting and amusing. It has been so successful I believe it will be doing another tour this year. I'll let you know dates and locations if/when I get them.

You will love the live performance if you get to see it. I would go again, and have already been twice.

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