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''The Bed-Sitting Room'' is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It began as a one-act play which was first produced on 12 February 1962 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, England, where it received good local notices. However, it made little impact on London's theatrical scene for over a year, when it was adapted to a longer play and Bernard Miles put it on at the Mermaid Theatre, where it was first performed on 31 January 1963 before transferring several weeks later to the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End.〔It was memorably presented in repertory by the Theatre Royal, York in 1972. The production had one of the best coups de theatre ever, when the character "Mate" (originally played in London by Spike Milligan) entered wearing a mixture of ragged military uniforms from across the centuries. Attached to his boots were long strips if canvas to which were attached pairs of boots. as he marched across the stage, the empty boots marched in perfect time behind him. It was both hilarious and heartbreaking. name="ScudamoresMilliganbio"> pp.200, 203-204〕〔 pp.157-158〕 It was a critical and commercial hit, and was revived in 1967, with a successful provincial tour, before opening at London's Saville Theatre on 3 May 1967.〔Scudamore (1985) pp.242-244〕 The script was later published in paperback book.〔Milligan, Spike, & Antrobus, John (1973) ''The Bedsitting Room''. Tandem: London. First published in Great Britain by Margaret & Jack Hobbs, 1970. Published by Universal-Tandem, 1972. © 1970 Spike Milligan and John Antrobus〕 A film based on the play was released in 1969, although this was less successful. The film was directed by Richard Lester and the cast included Ralph Richardson, Arthur Lowe, Rita Tushingham, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Michael Hordern, Marty Feldman, Harry Secombe and Milligan himself. The adaptation was by Charles Wood. The play is set in a post-apocalyptic London, nine months after World War III (the "Nuclear Misunderstanding"), which lasted for two minutes and twenty-eight seconds – "including the signing of the peace treaty".〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bed Sitting Room (1969) )〕 Nuclear fallout is producing strange mutations in people; the title refers to the character Lord Fortnum, who finds himself transforming into a bed-sitting room (other characters turn into a parrot and a wardrobe). The plot concerns the fate of the first child to be born after the war. == Authors' intentions == In his 2002 book of reflections, Antrobus describes his idea as about "a man who fears he will turn into a bedsitting room, which he does, and the dubious doctor he has been seeing moves in with his fiancée, declaring that it will be easier to work a cure on the premises. Therein lies the dilemma. For the doctor to heal the condition would mean becoming homeless".〔 pp.69-70〕 In a 1988 interview with Bernard Braden on ITV's ''All Our Yesterdays'', Milligan portrayed his view of ''The Bed-Sitting Room'' thus: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bed-Sitting Room (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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