Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, on BBC1 and iPlayer in June 2020, and published here for the first time.
Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the
success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series
Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his
works for the stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van
(together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The
Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay
The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's
The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The
History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards including
Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an
Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway,The
History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer
Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York
Drama League Award and six Tonys. The Habit of Art opened at the
National in 2009; in 2012, People, as well as the two short plays
Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, was also staged there.
His latest collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, was
published in 2016. Of his two previous collections, Writing Home
was a number one bestseller and Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley
Prize for autobiography, 2006. Bennett's Six Poets, Hardy to
Larkin, An Anthology, was published in 2014. His fiction includes
The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.
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