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Monologues, Comedy / 1w, 1m
Alan Bennett
"Diamond cut monologues...Several...instantly became cult classics...Mr. Bennett's work is too seldom seen on these shores." - The New York Times
"A touching and very funny playwright, Bennett manages to combine the satiric, cold eye…
Susan is a vicar’s wife suffocated by the expectations forced on her by her position and her husband’s over-zealous parishioners. She is also an alcoholic who travels into Leeds to go to the off-licence because of her debts with the local shopkeeper. In frustration, she embarks on an affair with the off-licence owner, Ramesh, discovering something about herself and God in the process.
"A touching and very funny playwright, Bennett manages to combine the satiric, cold eyed sharpness of Flaubert with an embracing human compassion." - The New York Post
"Alan Bennet's Bed Among the Lentils is one of the great observational peices from the master wordsmith's influential Talking Head's series." - Broadway Baby, Read here
Alan Bennett was born in Leeds in 1934. After studying at Oxford University he collaborated as a writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in Beyond the Fringe in 1960 at the Edinburgh Festival. He then turned to writing full time and produced h ...