Fylde Coast Players presents 'Blackadder II'
At Lowther Pavilion 19-22 March 2025

Fylde Coast Players have a cunning plan to take you back to Elizabethan England with Blackadder 2.

The play, adapted from 3 episodes of the original BBC production, is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It sees Edmund, Lord Blackadder, as a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of the Queen while avoiding execution by decapitation, a fate that befell many of her suitors. As ever Blackadder’s ambitions are hampered by his inept sidekicks, the aristocratic Lord Percy and the turnip-loving Baldrick.
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Potato-In the wake of Sir Walter Raleigh's triumphant return from America, and in an attempt to impress the Queen, Blackadder plans a voyage of his own around the Cape of Good Hope a voyage doomed to fail under the leadership of Captain Redbeard Rum

Bells-Blackadder employs a young man called "Bob" (who is actually a woman in disguise) whom he finds himself attracted to, much to his dismay. Once he discovers that "Bob" is actually Kate, he plans to marry her, only to have her elope with his best man, Lord Flashheart. The plot of the episode, of a young woman disguising herself as a man to go into service and falling in love with her employer, is particularly based on a significant plot thread of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Beer -With the promise of a large inheritance in mind, Blackadder attempts to impress his fanatically Puritanical aunt and uncle, while simultaneously attempting to win a drinking competition against Lord Melchett

​And... find out what the cast think of the show. Exclusive interviews with Lord Blackadder ...

And (of course) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth....

The Programme....

And the cast...

A stage adaptation by Fylde Coast Players based on the original BBC Television series
Created by Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson, Ben Elton and John Lloyd