' Twice Nightly ' - Screenplay 

                                     I soon start writing my Screenplay about Variety Theatre                                                       

My childhood 'backstage world' as I toured  all over Britain with my father    

        Comedian and Entertainer Stan Stennett MBE                   

The Film is set in  Swansea in the Summer of 1959 

A ''watershed' year for Variety Theatre in the face of the new entertainment of Television

In 'Twice Nightly' we see performers like my father, Morecambe and Wise, Bruce Forsythe, Lonnie Donegan and Shirley Bassey in the early stages of their careers, alongside fictional characters representing performing  talent of Variety 

Animal Acts. Sword Swallowers. Jugglers. Acrobats. Sand Dancers. Ventriloquists.  Male and Female Singers. 

And, of course, scantily-clad glamorous tableaus

    This feels like my own Welsh 'Cinema Paradiso'

 There is a 10 year old co-protagonist .

His innocent Point of View observes all the theatrical eccentricities

This is a very personal subject and one I feel uniquely qualified to write 

Because I am a  professional Dramatist and Screenwriter

And because.... I was actually THERE.