Clarence (UK TV series) Clarence (UK TV series) Clarence is a 1988 BBC situation comedy starring Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson, written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonym "Bob Ferris" as an acknowledgement to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, creators of "Porridge". It was Barker's final sitcom appearance before his retirement. Barker had previously faced some criticism over his employment of a stammer for comedic effect in "Open All Hours". However, the slapstick potential of a short-sighted furniture shifter must have seemed irresistible. The series was inspired by "The Removals Person" by Hugh Leonard, an episode in the 1971 LWT comedy anthology series,
Harley Granville-Barker his efforts did not go to waste but added to the growth of the regional repertory movement in Britain. Granville-Barker's directing career boomed with three famous productions of Shakespeare at the Savoy Theatre "The Winter's Tale" and "Twelfth Night" during 1912 and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1914. Granville-Barker took these productions and removed all classic scenery and replaced it with symbolic scenery, as well as enforcing ensemble acting. The year before he met his first wife, Granville-Barker wrote "The Voysey Inheritance" which is considered to be a masterpiece of the Edwardian stage. However, his other plays did not sit