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Dirty Work (play)
''Dirty Work'' is a farce by Ben Travers. It was one of the series of twelve Aldwych farces that ran in uninterrupted succession at the Aldwych Theatre in London from 1923 to 1933. The play depicts the maladroit but ultimately successful efforts of a shop-walker to outwit a gang of jewel thieves.
The piece opened on 7 March 1932 and ran for 193 performances until 26 August.〔"Aldwych Theatre", ''The Times'', 8 March 1932, p. 12; and "The Theatres", ''The Times'', 1 September 1932, p. 8〕 A film adaptation of the play was made in 1934.
==Background==
The actor-manager Tom Walls had produced, directed and co-starred in nine farces at the Aldwych since 1923. By the early 1930s his interest was moving from theatre to cinema, and though he produced the new work he did not appear in it. Ben Travers, who had written all but two of the previous farces, made no attempt to write a Walls-type role for another actor to play.〔 Ralph Lynn, who had co-starred with Walls in the previous farces, became the sole star.〔"Aldwych Theatre", ''The Times'', 8 March 1932, p. 12〕 Many members of the familiar company remained: Lynn, in his customary "silly ass" role, Robertson Hare, as a figure of put-upon respectability; Mary Brough as a good-hearted battle-axe; Ethel Coleridge as the voice of middle-class primness; and the saturnine Gordon James.〔Trussler, p. 278〕 Walls was missed by the critics and the public;〔"The Playhouses", ''The Illustrated London News'', 19 March 1932, p. 456〕 the play was the first of the series to run for fewer than 250 performances.〔"Theatres", ''The Times'', 6 January 1939, p. 10〕
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