
Blackadder
(Series 2: Episodes 1 (Bells), 2 (Head) and 6 (Chains)
By Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Directed by Tony Jenner
The Blackadder Dynasty stretches over five centuries and was first chronicled on our television screens back in June 1983 and ran for over six years before culminating in the poignant slow motion ‘over the top’ sequence fading into the field of Flanders poppies.
BLT’s cunning plan to delight audiences is to recreate 3 favourite episodes from Series 2:-
BELLS
Served by a dungball in a dress and accompanied by a bird-brained dimwit he can’t shake off, Edmund, the bastard great-great-grandson of the repulsive original, is reasonably normal – until he meets Bob . . .
HEAD
Edmund, newly appointed minister in charge of religious genocide and Lord High Executioner, finds himself in a spot of bother when he completely ruins Lord Farrow’s weekend by cutting off his head.
CHAINS
Edmund is slightly inconvenienced when a fat-headed German chamber-pot boxes him up in a chest full of iron spikes and leaves him to play charades with a crazed Spanish interrogator.
Cast
| Blackadder | Josh Lawson |
| Baldrick | Shekhar Vyas |
| Percy | Simon Holland |
| Queenie | Abigail Moss |
| Nurse | Jan Greenhough |
| Melchett | Richard Gissing |
| Kate | Olivia Kennett |
| Father/First Guard | Pete Holland |
| Dr Leech/Torturer | Tom Dignum |
| Flashheart | Pete Ditchburn |
| Ploppy | Terry Richards |
| Second Guard | Peter Yolland |
| Prince Ludwig | Steve Williams |
Crew
| Set design and construction | Tony Jenner and Jan Greenhough |
| Lighting and sound design | Jessica-Ann Jenner |
| Costume design | Kerstin Beard |
| Stage manager | Dinah Irvine |
| Asst. Stage managers | Charlotte Lees, Mary Lwena and Steph Alcantara |
| Lighting and sound operators | Satu Lehtonen and Jay Tarrant |

