On the Ceiling

This time the Pope has surely backed a loser, the man he has put in charge of painting The Sistine Chapel is simply not up to the job after all, he's a sculptor with next to no experience of painting. So, who has to cover for him? Who has to put in the hours, teach him his craft, patch up his mistakes, deal with his tantrums and get the job done? Who? Like any big project, it's the little guys, the professionals, the men who've been doing this kind of thing all their lives they're the ones that are actually going to have to make it happen. This new comedy, by the actor who starred alongside Alexei Sayle in The Young Ones, lifts the lid on the extraordinary story of the men, disregarded by history, who worked on history's most highly regarded ceiling.