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    Thark

    By Clive Francis and Ben Travers

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    London, 1927. Things are not going well for Hector Benbow. His secret liaison with a shop girl is scuppered by his wife’s early arrival home. What’s more, there are reports that Thark – the family home – is haunted. Hector, his plucky nephew Ronny,

    and the rest of the family set out to the house to prove the rumours wrong. But Thark promises to live up to its spinechilling reputation…

    This adaptation received its world premiere at Park Theatre in August 2013, directed by Eleanor Rhode, whose previous sellout successes include A Life and the Time Out Critics’ Choice productions of The Drawer Boy and Generous.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOberon Books
    Release dateMar 27, 2015
    ISBN9781783198832
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    Clive Francis

    Clive Francis is well-known as an actor as well as a caricaturist. He has made over a hundred television appearances, while his London stage career began in 1966 with There's a Girl in My Soup. He performed in a large number of shows in London's West End, including Graham Greene's The Return of AJ Raffles, Somerset Maugham's The Circle, Simon Gray's The Rear Column, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School of Scandal, Noel Coward's Look after Lulu, Michael Frayn's Benefactors, Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw and Alan Bennett's Single Spies. He joined Alan Ayckbourn's company at London's National Theatre in 1986 and was Scrooge for two years running in the Royal Shakespeare Company's A Christmas Carol. He is the author of There Is Nothing Like a Thane! Clive Francis has been caricaturing professionally since 1983 and has had seven solo exhibitions including three at the National Theatre. He has designed a number of posters and book covers, including two for Alec Guinness and two for John Gielgud.

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