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| Posted by: AlanScott 05:08 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| In reply to: Great - Whistler 02:08 am EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| I should read some of his earlier plays. I have to imagine that at least some of them are better (perhaps a lot better) than The Bed Before Yesterday. Of all 20th-century playwrights who were very popular in England, he is perhaps the one least produced in the U.S. Despite many West End successes, not a single play of his ever reached Broadway, but I think some are regarded as rather good | |
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| Last Edit: whereismikeyfl 11:03 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 11:01 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Great - AlanScott 05:08 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| Ben Travers plays from the 1920s are really great. Thark and Rookery Nook are very funny. And as I recall Plunder is very interesting and atypical of Travers. I remember reading them and thinking that Orton's What the Bulter Saw did not so much subvert the Travers-style farce as reveal qualities that were already latent in the original plays. I never read Bed Before Yesterday, but I can imagine a play written 40 or 50 years after the work that made a writers reputation is likely to be a bit flat. |
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| re: Great | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:31 pm EDT 08/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Great - whereismikeyfl 11:01 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| Thanks for the encouragement to read those plays. I will try to get hold of them. And I think I've read something somewhere pointing to Travers as a forerunner of Orton. | |
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