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 Dads illusions. The house is dismantled around them to be rebuilt in a park preserving the ideals of family life. Mam will be in a showcase whilst Dad is carted off to the geriatric ward.
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, idoli...
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.
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, th...
"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." --The Daily Telegraph
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim,...
"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." --The Daily Telegraph
Alan Bennett's 'A Life Like Other People's' is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage & recalling his Leeds childhood, & the lives, loves & deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen & Myra.
Alan Bennett's 'A Life Like Other People's' is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage & recalling his Leeds childhood, ...
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, these modern-day classics invite us to explore 12 very different but very real characters and their lives.
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and...
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 life becomes much more stimulating.
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 b...