But while this, quite rightly, sold out in seconds, there’s still a chance to see the show broadcast live from select Picturehouse cinemas on 20 July – including Cambridge’s Arts Picturehouse.
Forming at Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the 1960s (Chapman, Cleese and Idle were all members of Footlights), Monty Python’s Flying Circus was their first project together and revolutionised comedy with its zany sketches, surreal and now iconic animations and intellectual, often political themes. Films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail (‘bring out yer dead!’) and Life of Brian (‘he’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’) soon followed, cementing the name Monty Python in the canon of comedy forever more.
Now at the tender combined age of 358, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Michael Palin will revisit some of their greatest skits and sketches, topped with topical, contemporary twists. If you miss it in Cambridge, it’s also showing at Haverhill Arts Centre the same day, 7pm, with a recorded broadcast on 25 July.
Tickets £12.50/£15.
