Wurzel-Flummery

'''''Wurzel-Flummery''''' is a play by A. A. Milne, which was performed for the first time in 1917, in London.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-23 |title=Wurzel-Flummery – A.A. Milne |url=https://thecaptivereader.com/2018/01/23/wurzel-flummery-a-a-milne/ |access-date=2024-02-11 |website=The Captive Reader |language=en}}</ref>

It was the first play Milne wrote. He originally wrote it in three acts, but when he got a good offer for a production if he cut it down to a two-act play, he rewrote it. By removing another character, he got it down to one act, which he liked best in the end.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wurzel-Flummery |url=https://www.greatwartheatre.org.uk/db/script/1885/ |access-date=2024-02-11 |language=en-US}}</ref>

On 7 April 1917 it was produced with the following cast: Nigel Playfair, Helen Haye, Peggy Kurton, Martin Lewis, Dion Boucicault Jr.<ref>{{Cite web |title=First Plays, by A. A. Milne |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7805/7805-h/7805-h.htm#:~:text=Wurzel-Flummery%20was%20produced%20by,into%20a%20two-act%20play. |access-date=2024-02-11 |website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref> and Bertram Siems at the New Theatre, London.

== External links == *[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7805 Free eBook of ''First Plays'', containing the play ''Wurzel-Flummery''] at Project Gutenberg * {{librivox book | title=Wurzel-Flummery | author=A. A. Milne}}

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Category:1917 plays Category:Plays by A. A. Milne Category:West End plays