She Follows Me About

She Follows Me About
Written by	Ben Travers
Date premiered	14 June 1943
Place premiered	Theatre Royal, Birmingham
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy
Setting	England, present day

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 and Richard Briers.^[4] It was the only one of seven episodes not be based on one of the playwright's pre-war Aldwych Farces.

References

1. Wearing p.127
2. Wearing p.127
3. De Jongh p.78
4. "BBC Programme Index". 31 October 1970.

Bibliography

• 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.