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PATRICK MARMION: It's gags galore from three comic legends... JUST LIKE THAT!
PATRICK MARMION: Hallelujah! There really is a comedy heaven, and within it are the ghosts of Bob Monkhouse, Eric Morecambe and Tommy Cooper.
Written by Chris Bush (the talent behind the hit musical Standing At The Sky's Edge), Otherland is about a man called Harry whose marriage to Jo falls apart when he decides to transition and become female. Prayerful, peace-loving, if irascible Johann Sebastian has been summoned by the godless warmonger Frederick the Great, whose invasion of Bach's beloved Leipzig has filled the city with bodies of rotting soldiers. Bach (a shouty though beguiling Brian Cox in a wig borrowed from Mrs Tiggywinkle) finally arrives in Potsdam where his son, Carl, is a court composer with huge debts, unaware that the King intends to humiliate him.
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