| re: Great |
| 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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