Ben Travers
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Ben Travers 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
Travers in 1975
Inspirations to the young Travers: clockwise from top left: W. G. Grace, Ranjitsinhji, Sarah Bernhardt, Lucien Guitry
Yvonne Printemps starred in Travers's 1936 O Mistress Mine
Scene from The Dippers, 1922
A Cuckoo in the Nest
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A Cuckoo in the Nest is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the second in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manag
Ben Travers
…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…
Yvonne Arnaud, Ralph Lynn and Mary Brough in the 1925 production
From left: Major Bone, Peter, Marguerite, Claude Hickett and Barbara Wykeham, 1925 original cast