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She Follows Me About
Original languageEnglish
Written byBen Travers
GenreComedy
SettingEngland, present day
Premiere
Date14 June 1943
PlaceTheatre Royal, Birmingham

She Follows Me About is a comedy play by the British writer Ben Travers. A farce, it premiered at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham before transferring to the Garrick Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 196 performances between 15 October 1943 and 18 March 1944.[1] The West End cast included Robertson Hare, Basil Radford, Joyce Heron, Percy Parsons, Gordon James, Aubrey Mallalieu, Pauline Tennant and Catherine Lacey. The plot revolved around a Vicar who unwittingly discovers that his camera has photographs of two nude WAAFS on it, taken as part of a mischievous dare.[2][3]

In 1970 it was adapted by the BBC for an episode of Ben Travers' Farces featuring Arthur Lowe.[4] It was the only one of seven episodes not be based on one of the playwright's pre-war Aldwych Farces.

References

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  1. Wearing p.127
  2. Wearing p.127
  3. De Jongh p.78
  4. "BBC Programme Index". 31 October 1970. Archived from the original on May 7, 2017.

Bibliography

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  • De Jongh, Nicholas. Politics, Prudery & Perversions: The Censoring of the English Stage, 1901-1968. Methuen, 2000.
  • Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1940–1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.