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Events to mark St George’s Day
TRAFALGAR Square will host a free programme of classic film and television comedy on Monday April 23, as part of the St George’s Day celebrations.
The event will culminate in a special screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and a ‘coconut orchestra’ world record attempt at 7pm involving cast members of the musical Monty Python’s Spamalot.
The programme begins at 12.30pm with a compilation of well-known TV comedy clips, plus the feature film Futtock’s End, written by and starring comedian Ronnie Barker.
The programme will also feature silent films.
Cast members from Spamalot will at 6.45pm teach members of the public how to ‘clip-clop’ with two halves of a coconut, in time to the Monty Python classic song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
The current ‘coconut orchestra’ world record was awarded in New York last year when 1,785 people took part in a similar event.
More than 2,000 people are expected to help set a new world record in London.
The Guinness Book of Records will attend.
Other events to mark St George’s Day include a weekend of free activities at Shakespeare’s Globe to celebrate the Bard – whose birthday also falls on 23 April – and his contribution to theatre and the English language.
Silent film shorts inspired by the Bard will be projected onto the exterior walls of the Globe, with live musical accompaniment, which people will be able to see as they walk along Bankside, or cross the Millennium Bridge.
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