A Night Like This (play)

Walls (l) and Lynn (r) with Louis Bradfield (receiving blow to head) and Gordon James (on floor)

A Night Like This is a farce by Ben Travers, written as one of the series of Aldwych farces staged nearly continuously at the Aldwych Theatre, London, from 1923 to 1933. The farces were directed by Tom Walls, who co-starred in most of them with Ralph Lynn, and a supporting cast of regular Aldwych performers. The play is a spoof of detective plays and thrillers, with the two stars successfully taking on a criminal gang. Eventually, the gang is rounded up, and the jewels taken from the heroine are restored to their proper owner.

The piece opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 18 February 1930 and ran until 15 November, a total of 267 performances.[1][2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "The Theatres", The Times 13 November 1930, p. 12; and "Mr. Ralph Lynn", The Times, 10 August 1962, p. 11