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Written and Directed by Robert Gillespie<\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> 27 to 31 July<\/p>\n Book now:<\/strong> 020 8038 4614<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> RAF Museum London,<\/p>\n Grahame Park Way, London NW9 5LL<\/p>\n The Royal Air Force Museum and Jane Nightwork Productions presents a \u2018World Premier\u2019 theatre production of The Red Baron, written and directed by TV actor Robert Gillespie.<\/strong><\/p>\n Manfred von Richthofen was one of the Great War\u2019s aerial super-stars.\u00a0 \u00a0An aristocrat and huntsman, he loved the new medium and trained himself to be a superb air-borne killer<\/p>\n He was never seen with a girl, though \u2013 or hardly ever.\u00a0\u00a0 Hacked off with being pestered and nudged by his friends, he calls on Coco.\u00a0\u00a0 She\u2019s one of the girls in a house near the front.\u00a0\u00a0 Where all the squadron goes.<\/p>\n But all Manfred does is talk about planes and guns – and shooting down enemy flyers.<\/p>\n For most of us, World War One means trench warfare.<\/p>\n But in 1915, for the first time in history, young men were soaring the skies.\u00a0\u00a0 Fighting in flimsy machines for country and personal glory. This play is about them. And one man\u2019s astonishing change of mind.<\/p>\n Robert Gillespie began his acting career with two years with the Old Vic Company, beginning in autumn 1953 for Michael Benthall\u2019s Shakespeare seasons. In the company were Richard Burton, Clare Bloom, Fay Compton and Michael Hordern. The second year was headed by Paul Rogers, Ann Todd, Virginia McKenna and John Neville. His TV roles include Hugh and I Spy, The Good Life, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Robin\u2019s Nest, George and Mildred, Rising Damp, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Porridge, Dad’s Army (in which he played Charles Boyer playing Napoleon Bonaparte), Butterflies, The Liver Birds, Beggar My Neighbour, Agony, Terry and June and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.<\/p>\n RAF Museum London<\/p>\n Grahame Park Way, London NW9 5LL<\/p>\n 27-31 July Wed-Sat, 7-30pm and Sun 3 & 7pm<\/p>\n Box Office: 020 8038 4614<\/p>\n Tickets \u00a38<\/p>\n Website: www.janenightwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written and Directed by Robert Gillespie Date: 27 to 31 July Book now: 020 8038 4614 Location: RAF Museum London, Grahame Park Way, London NW9 5LL The Royal Air Force Museum and Jane Nightwork Productions presents a \u2018World Premier\u2019 theatre production of The Red Baron, written and directed by TV actor Robert Gillespie. Manfred von … Continue reading The Red Baron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[263,46,10,187],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-263","tag-june","tag-news","tag-raf-museum-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}