Ben Travers

Three Farces and a Comedy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a writing career of over 60 years, Ben Travers is regarded as the master of the 'Aldwych Farces'. This collection is being published at a time where farces are coming back into fashion following the smash hit of One Man Two Guvnors, and the success of The Magistrate both at the National Theatre, as well as the recent productions of Noises Off and What the Butler Saw. The four plays in this collection are representative of Travers' work at its best and most characteristic.The plays include the classic farces Rookery Nook (1926), Thark (1927), Plunder (1927) & The Bed Before Yesterday (1977).Several of these plays have enjoyed modern revivals, Plunder in 1977 at the National Theatre, and Rookery Nook in 2009 at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849437936
• Artikelnr.: 40632966

Autorenporträt

Ben Travers was born in Hendon in 1886 and was sent to Charterhouse in the reign of Queen Victoria. His school career was a complete failure and was terminated, as he himself asserted, by mutual consent. In 1911 he found employment at the firm of John Lane, the publisher and founder of the Bodley Head. He wrote more than twenty plays, thirty screenplays, five novels, three volumes of memoirs and a book on cricket. During the 1914-18 war he was a Squadron Commander in the RNAS and RAF, and received the Air Force Cross, and in 1939 rejoined the RAF as Squadron Leader. He was also the Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, Vice President of Somerset County Cricket Club, and President of the Dramatists' Club. In 1976 he was presented with a Special Standard Drama Award for his services to the Theatre, and he received the C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours. He died in 1980.