I was really tickled a few weeks back to receive an email from Oliver Houston, a playwright living in the UK who is working on a new piece that will reference Dahl’s failed play “Your Loving Wife” (aka “The Honeys”). Oliver has been researching the play but couldn’t confirm which theatre it played in Bournemouth. I joined his effort and was able to find a newspaper clipping from October 1956 that showed it was the Bournemouth Pavilion. I also found a reference to a collection of contemporary reviews at a museum in Wales. Oliver contacted the museum and shared with me his transcripts of the reviews, which I’ve now added to the site.
How cool is that? I love that even after nearly 30 years of working on this website, I can still get a stumper of a question and end up learning something new about Dahl.