Twice Brightly

Twice Brightly

Infobox Book |
name = Twice Brightly


image_caption =
author = Harry Secombe
country = United Kingdom
language = English
genre = Comic novel
publisher =
release_date = 1974
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 224 pp
isbn = ISBN 0903895234

"Twice Brightly" is a 1974 comic novel by Harry Secombe, fictionalising his experiences as a recently demobbed Welsh serviceman and army comic returning from the battlefields of North Africa and Italy and struggling to make a living in the British Variety Theatres after the Second World War. The lead character is a Welsh comic called Larry Gower, Secombe's alter ego. The title is a pun on the phrase "twice nightly".

Plot summary

For young servicemen who had spent six years fighting fascism, postwar Britain was a drab, oppressive place. For a young and untried army comic keen on the Marx brothers and Jimmy Cagney, a Yorkshire Variety theatre in February was a vision of Hell itself.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

It was dramatised as a 60 minute Radio 4 radio play by Harry's son David Harry Secombe in 2006, first broadcast that year and repeated on Saturday 19 May 2007. This ended with Gower as a success, leaving for London to take part in "Crazy People", a play by his fellow ex-soldier and comic Jim Moriarty - this is a fictionalisation of the initial stages of the Goon Show, and Moriarty (deriving his name from the Goon character Count Jim Moriarty) is a fictionalised Spike Milligan.

Cast

*Larry Gower (Secombe's alter ego)...... Christian Patterson
*Wally ...... Dominic Frisby
*Tom ...... Philip Jackson
*Julie ...... Becky Hindley
*April ...... Katy Secombe (Harry's daughter)
*June ...... Ella Smith
*Joe ...... Gerard McDermott
*Jim ...... John Cummins
*Mrs Ma Rogers, landlady ...... Carolyn Pickles
*Hubert ...... Geoffrey Beevers

*Director Steven Canny


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