Dad thinks everything will be better when the family moves. The social worker who calls to observe their lives turns out to be absent son Terry, idolized by Mam, in drag. Secretary daughter Linda, in reality a prostitute, breezes in, shattering Dadâ...
Graham, a middle-aged bachelor, emotionally retarded and chronically dependent on his mother, finds life difficult enough at the best of times. When Mother meets an old flame and seems set to marry him, however, Graham's old insecurities rear their...
At work Peggy has carved herself a comfortable niche. Once in hospital, she loses no time in establishing herself as Queen Bee, taking on several responsibilities. Persistently cheerful, blind to the feelings of others and, at heart, terribly lonely, Pegg...
Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane...
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC television in 1988. A second series followed, to massive acclaim. Nearly twenty years later, 'Talking...
FATHER! FATHER! BURNING BRIGHT, the savage satire on a dying man's family reaction as he still asserts control over them from the hospital bed. THE CLOTHES THEY STOOD UP IN, the painful story of what happens to an elderly couple when their flat is...
Paperback of the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic "Writing Home". This book contains significant unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for...
In The History Boys , Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raisesâwith gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of characterânot only...
George III's behaviour was often odd, but now he is deranged, rumoured to have even addressed a tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent takes over. This play explores the court of the mad king....