LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ben travers

7 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ben travers

  • A Cuckoo in the Nest
    Ben Travers
    Peter Wykeham and attractive Mrs. Marguerite Hickett find themselves stranded in a back country inn, where they must stay the night. In order to get a room, they must convince the prudish landlady that they are man and wife. All hell breaks loose, though, when they are tracked down by their spouses, demanding an explanation.6 women, 7 men ...
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  • Thark - A Farce
    Ben Travers
    Sir Hector Benbow invites Cherry, a pretty shop assistant, to dine. Arriving home, he finds not only Cherry but Mrs Frush, to whom he has rented Thark, his neice’s Norfolk house. Mrs Frush complains Thark is haunted. To distract Lady Benbow’s attention from Cherry, he suggests everyone go to Thark, which lives up to its spinechilling reputation. A wild night, sinister butler an...
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  • Thark
    Ben Travers
    Sir Hector Benbow invites Cherry, a pretty shop assistant, to dine. Arriving home, he finds not only Cherry but Mrs Frush, to whom he has rented Thark, his niece’s Norfolk house. Mrs Frush complains Thark is haunted. To distract Lady Benbow’s attention from Cherry, he suggests everyone go to Thark, which lives up to its spine-chilling reputation. A wild night, sinister butler a...
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    21,66 €

  • Travers
    Ben Travers
    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. 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 (192...
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    33,31 €

  • The Dippers (1920)
    Ben Travers
    The Dippers is a novel written by Ben Travers and first published in 1920. The story revolves around the lives of two young men, Jack and Reggie, who are both avid swimmers and members of a local swimming club called The Dippers. Jack is a charming and carefree young man, while Reggie is more serious and studious. Despite their differences, the two become close friends and spen...
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    33,28 €

  • Rookery Nook - A Farce in Three Acts
    Ben Travers
    Gerald rents Rookery Nook where his wife, Clara, will join him later. He is agreeably surprised by a pretty stranger called Rhoda who comes running to him for protection against her irascible German stepfather. Gerald allows her to stay in one of the bedrooms but as she is clad only in pyjamas, it is vital to conceal her presence from nosy neighbours. Rhoda gets herself some cl...
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  • The Bed Before Yesterday
    Ben Travers
    The Bed Before Yesterday is a comedy for four men and four women. Alma, a rich but physically far from lovely widow, has had no sexual experience since the sole, off-putting occasion of her wedding night some twenty years ago. She marries the impoverished gentleman, Victor, now equally uninterested in sexual activities, on the understanding that their relationship shall be base...
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    18,48 €