Terence Frisby
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Terence Frisby is a London-based playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 and novelist, best known as the author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 of the play There's A Girl In My Soup
There's A Girl In My Soup (comedy)
There's A Girl In My Soup is a stage comedy written by Terence Frisby.It opened in 1966 at the Globe Theatre and ran for six and half years until 1973 - over a thousand performances - to become the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End. After three and a half years at the Globe, the...

.

Personal life

Born in 1932 in New Cross
New Cross
New Cross is a district and ward of the London Borough of Lewisham, England. It is situated 4 miles south-east of Charing Cross. The ward covered by London post town and the SE 14 postcode district. New Cross is near St Johns, Telegraph Hill, Nunhead, Peckham, Brockley, Deptford and Greenwich...

, south east London
London
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. He is father of stand-up comedian and voice-over artist Dominic Frisby. He has 4 grandchildren.

Productions

There's A Girl In My Soup
There's A Girl In My Soup (comedy)
There's A Girl In My Soup is a stage comedy written by Terence Frisby.It opened in 1966 at the Globe Theatre and ran for six and half years until 1973 - over a thousand performances - to become the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End. After three and a half years at the Globe, the...

was a long-running comedy opening in 1966 at the Globe Theatre
Gielgud Theatre
The Gielgud Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, London, at the corner of Rupert Street. The house currently has 889 seats on three levels.-History:...

 (now called the Gielgud Theatre) and running for over 1,000 performances, then becoming a worldwide smash hit with long runs on Broadway, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Sydney, Rome (starring the famous Italian singer-songwriter-actor Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu "...

), Vienna, Prague and many other places. It is still constantly played wherever there is theatre. His script of the equally successful 1970 film
There's a Girl in My Soup
‎ There's a Girl in My Soup is a 1970 British comedy film, directed by Roy Boulting and starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn. Sellers appears as Robert Danvers, a vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile cooking show...

, which starred Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...

 and Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969...

, won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. It is affiliated with both the Trades Union Congress and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds .-Activities:...

 Award in 1970 for the Best British Comedy Screenplay.

His other stage plays include The Subtopians (Arts Theatre
Arts Theatre
The Arts Theatre is a theatre in Great Newport Street, in Westminster, Central London. It now operates as the West End's smallest commercial receiving house.-History:...

 1964), The Bandwagon (Mermaid Theatre
Mermaid Theatre
The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre at Puddle Dock, in Blackfriars, in the City of London and the first built there since the time of Shakespeare...

 1969), It's All Right If I Do It (Mermaid 1977), Seaside Postcard (Young Vic 1978) Rough Justice (Apollo Theatre
Apollo Theatre
The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...

 1994) Funny About Love (two UK national tours 1999-2000). All his plays are published by Samuel French.
He has also written many plays for television, two of which were nominated for awards. His comedy series include Lucky Feller with David Jason
David Jason
Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...

 (1976) and 26 episodes of That's Love with Jimmy Mulville
Jimmy Mulville
James Thomas "Jimmy" Mulville is an English comedian, comedy writer, producer and television presenter. Jimmy Mulville is best known for co-founding in 1986 the British independent television production company Hat Trick Productions with Denise O'Donoghue and Rory McGrath...

, Diana Hardcastle
Diana Hardcastle
Diana Hardcastle is a British actress who has appeared largely in television roles. She appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders, Inspector Lynley and Taggart. She played recurring roles in the series First Among Equals and Fortunes of War....

, and Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery
Anthony Declan James "Tony" Slattery is an English actor and comedian who has appeared on British television regularly since the mid 1980s, most notably as a regular on the Channel 4 improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? As a film actor, both comedic and serious, his credits include The...

, (1988–92) which won the Gold Award for Comedy at the 1991 Houston International Film Festival.

His radio play Just Remember Two Things: It's Not Fair And Don't Be Late for BBC Radio Four won The Giles Cooper Award and achieved some sort of record by being broadcast ten times in a few months on Radio 4 and BBC World Service.

A musical stage version of his radio play was produced at the Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple
Barnstaple
Barnstaple is a town and civil parish in the local government district of North Devon in the county of Devon, England, UK. It lies west southwest of Bristol, north of Plymouth and northwest of the county town of Exeter. The old spelling Barnstable is now obsolete.It is the main town of the...

 in 2004 under the title Just Remember Two Things... An option for the West End has been taken up under the title Kisses On A Postcard
Kisses On A Postcard
Kisses on a Postcard is a stage musical written by Terence Frisby with music by Gordon Clyde, John Altman, and Tom Recknell based on Frisby's experiences as an evacuee, or 'vacky', during World War II...

. The musical has now been published as a book.

His first book was Outrageous Fortune, an autobiographical story about his fifteen years as a litigant-in-person in the High Court following his spectacularly awful divorce and custody battle. Outrageous Fortune, both hilarious and nightmarish, created shock waves throughout the legal world.

His second book is Kisses On A Postcard, published by Bloomsbury. It tells of his experiences as an evacuee as a 7-year-old from London to Cornwall during World War Two. It is based on the musical of the same name.

Terence has worked extensively for 40 years as actor, director and producer. He has played leads and directed in the West End, Young Vic and all over the country. His most noted presentation was the South African, multi-award-winning WOZA ALBERT!
Woza Albert!
Woza Albert! is a political satire that imagines the second coming of Christ in apartheid-ridden South Africa.-The play:The play opened at Johannesburg's Market Theater and toured in Europe and America as the most successful play to come out of South Africa, winning more than 20 prestigious awards...

at the Criterion Theatre
Criterion Theatre
The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Piccadilly Circus in the City of Westminster, and is a Grade II* listed building. It has an official capacity of 588.-Building the theatre:...

 in 1983, subsequently off-Broadway and worldwide.

Terence is currently working on a novel.

Together with his son, Dominic, and Jeremy James Taylor, founder member of the National Youth Music Theatre, he has formed a company, Vackies Ltd, whose aim is to raise the necessary funds and present Kisses On A Postcard, the stage version of his radio drama Just Remember Two Things: It's Not Fair And Don't Be Late, in London's West End.

He was one of the earliest members of the father's rights and support group Families Need Fathers.

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