' Twice Nightly ' - Film Screenplay
From Autumn 2026 I will be writing a Screenplay about Variety Theatre and my childhood 'backstage world' as I toured all over Britain with my father
Comedian and Entertainer Stan Stennett MBE
The Film is set in South Wales in 1959
This was 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 the 'menagerie' of performing talent that Variety represented.
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 that I feel uniquely qualified to write.
I am a Dramatist and Screenwriter
And I was actually THERE.