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 This book contains significant unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for...
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....