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She Follows Me About
''She Follows Me About'' is a comedy play by the British writer Ben Travers. A farce, it premiered at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham before transferring to the Garrick Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 196 performances between 15 October 1943 and 18 March 1944. The West End cast included Robertson Hare, Basil Radford, Joyce Heron, Percy Parsons, Gordon James, Aubrey Mallalieu, Pauline Tennant and Catherine Lacey. The plot revolved around a Vicar who unwittingly discovers that his camera has photographs of two nude WAAFS on it, taken as part of a mischievous dare. In 1970 it was adapted by the BBC for an episode of ''Ben Travers' Farces'' featuring Arthur Lowe and Richard Briers. It was the only one of seven episodes not be based on one of the playwright's pre-war Aldwych Farces The Aldwych farces were a series of twelve stage farces presented at the Aldwych Theatre, London, nearly continuously from 1923 to 1933. All but three of them were written by Ben Travers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Travers
Ben Travers (12 November 188618 December 1980) was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is most notable for his long-running series of farces first staged in the 1920s and 1930s at the Aldwych Theatre. Many of these were made into films and later television productions. After working for some years in his family's wholesale grocery business, which he detested, Travers was given a job by the publisher John Lane in 1911. After service as a pilot in the First World War, he began to write novels and plays. He turned his 1921 novel, '' The Dippers'', into a play that was first produced in the West End in 1922. His big break came in 1925, when the actor-manager Tom Walls bought the performing rights to his play '' A Cuckoo in the Nest'', which ran for more than a year at the Aldwych. He followed this success with eight more farces for Walls and his team; the last in the series closed in 1933. Most of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |