Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten (1902-1990) was an English playwright writing under the name of Waveney Carten in collaboration with her sister, Audrey Carten.
Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten (1902-1990) was an English playwright writing under the name of Waveney Carten in collaboration with her sister, Audrey Carten.
Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten was born in 1902 into a middle-class family in Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, London, the daughter of Catherine and Edwin Hare Bicker-Caarten. [1] [2] Among her siblings: Audrey Carten (1900-1977) and Kenneth Bicker Caarten (1911-1980).[ citation needed ]
At the end of the 1920s, Waveney and her sister Audrey wrote a number of successful plays [3] such as Happy Families (1929) (cowritten also with Jane Ross, produced by Gerald du Maurier), [4] [5] Change of Heart (1929) (produced by Du Maurier), [6] Fame (1929), [7] Q, Late One Evening, Gay Love, Destination Unknown, Strawberry Leaves and two adaptations, Mademoiselle and My Crime. [1] Beginning of the 1930s, Audrey Carten continued to write alone. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
In 1932, Waveney Carten married Vladimir Provatoroff. [2]
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