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For Services Rendered is a play by Somerset Maugham. First performed in London in 1932, the play is about the effects of World War I on an English family.
5 paź 2014 · Written with sincerity combined with adroit dramatic skills of a consummate playwright, For Services Rendered follows the Ardsleys, a typical higher middle class family in a hinterland township. The father Leonard Ardsley is a solicitor in a small village.
7 wrz 2013 · Written in 1932, For Services Rendered is Somerset Maugham's incisive state-of-the-nation play – written 15 years on from the end of the First World War. The Ardsley family seem to...
Complete summary of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of For Services Rendered.
For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War. "A play with these characters, to whom we are introduced at a tennis party, as in a conventional drawing-room comedy of the period, could have been written mainly for smiles.
Howard Davies' exquisite production of Maugham's For Services Rendered, now paying at Chichester's Minerva Theatre, is an example of good old-fashioned theatre.
24 sie 2015 · W. Somerset Maugham's play For Services Rendered is being performed at the moment at Minerva Theatre, Chichester, directed by Howard Davies. The reviews are nothing but glowing. Maugham's superb orchestration is fully recognized.
