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A comedy full of old fashioned wise-cracking and ribaldry, in which Milner’s hero, "Frank More", is a bit of a twit, but an awfully likeable one. Watching him career from one mini-disaster to another in Milner’s surreal world of trouserless majors and errant washing machines is an entertaining, if baffling, ride. | A comedy full of old fashioned wise-cracking and ribaldry, in which Milner’s hero, "Frank More", is a bit of a twit, but an awfully likeable one. Watching him career from one mini-disaster to another in Milner’s surreal world of trouserless majors and errant washing machines is an entertaining, if baffling, ride. | ||
| − | First produced at the New Arts | + | First produced at the New Arts Theatre Club and at the Wyndham's Theatre in London, England, with Patricia Routledge, Thelma Whiteley, and Peter Bayliss in the cast. Philip Grout was director. First published by Samuel French, London, 1966. |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Latest revision as of 15:33, 1 November 2021
How's the World Treating You? is a comedy by Roger Milner (1925-2014)[1].
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A comedy full of old fashioned wise-cracking and ribaldry, in which Milner’s hero, "Frank More", is a bit of a twit, but an awfully likeable one. Watching him career from one mini-disaster to another in Milner’s surreal world of trouserless majors and errant washing machines is an entertaining, if baffling, ride.
First produced at the New Arts Theatre Club and at the Wyndham's Theatre in London, England, with Patricia Routledge, Thelma Whiteley, and Peter Bayliss in the cast. Philip Grout was director. First published by Samuel French, London, 1966.
Performance history in South Africa
1966: Presented by CAPAB in 1966 at the Hofmeyr Theatre directed by Frank Shelley, starring visiting British actor Michael Mellinger, Shelley, Norman Coombes, Jean Shaw, Yvonne Bryceland and Erica Rogers. Settings designed by Michael Clarke.
1966: Frank Shelley directed an Alexander Theatre production starring himself, Pat Sanders, Erica Rogers, Ian Hamilton, Genevieve Wait, George Korelin.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590411/bio
How's the World Treating You? theatre programme (CAPAB 1966).
Review by Percy Baneshik, The Rand Daily Mail, 5 December 1966 (Alexander Theatre production).
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2014/roger-milner/
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