Arkwright (Open All Hours) Arkwright (Open All Hours) Albert E. Arkwright, usually referred to simply as Arkwright, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the British sitcom, "Open All Hours", played by Ronnie Barker. Arkwright is the uncle of Granville and the proprietor of an old fashioned Yorkshire corner shop, which in the era of the programme (1970s and 1980s) was a product of a bygone age. Arkwright's signature characteristic is his stutter, which Granville never misses an opportunity to mock. Arkwright is a pragmatic, miserly man with old-fashioned values, whose world seems to stop at his shop door, except for his
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