ALAN BENNETT (1934 - )
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by Alan Bennett
Bed Among The Lentils |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy, London | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Complete Talking Heads" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Susan, a vicar's wile living near Leeds. She can barely cope with the lifestyle and the attendant do-gooders, well-meaning women who attach themselves to her husband In the hope of a little reflected glory. Susan hits the sherry bottle - or the communion wine, It there's nothing else to hand - but one day her loveless marriage gets a lift when she drops In on an Asian grocer with whom she enjoys a dabble in extra-marital relations. It changes her life and off she goes to AA meetings. Michael Darvell, What's On | ||||
Beyond The Fringe |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1960 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Souvenir Press, London | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore | ||||
Synopsis: a variety of skits from spoof Shakespeare to nuclear war experts | ||||
Chip in the Sugar, A |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy, London | 1992 | ||
| Company: | Duncan C Weldon | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1988 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A Monologue From Talking Heads | ||||
Synopsis: Middle aged Graham, Oedipally resenting his widowed mother's plans to marry again, will never accept that he is virtually married to her himself. Kenneth Hurren, Mail on Sunday | ||||
Clothes They Stood Up In, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Cream Cracker Under The Settee, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Complete Talking Heads" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Playlet | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Doris, another lonely widow who has visits from Zulema, the home help, except Doris thinks shes more of a home hindrance who wont let her do housework. Im the only person who stands between you and Stafford House,~ says Zulema. But independent Doris does some dusting, takes a tumble and ends up on the floor unable to move. While rememt ring her late husband and the chile they nearly had, she spots a cream cracker under the settee. That will do for evidence against Zulema if she threatens Doris with Stafford House again. Michael Darvell, What's On | ||||
Englishman Abroad, An |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Single Spies", Faber, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: televised 1983, part of Single Spies | ||||
Synopsis: True incident in the life of actress Coral Browne telling the story of her encounter with the spy Guy Burgess in Moscow in 1958 | ||||
Enjoy |
| 1st Produced: | Vaudeville Theatre, London | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Working-class family life with an elderly couple living in the last back-to-back in Leeds encountering a series of jolting surprises. | ||||
Forty Years On |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1968 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1969 | ||
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| Genre: | Satirical Revue | Satire | Parts: | Male | 25 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The headmaster of an English public school retires amidst antics exposing the generation gap. | ||||
Getting On |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a disenchanted socialist MP who doesn't like people contends with his passing years | ||||
Green Forms |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: in Office Suite, televised 1978 | ||||
Synopsis: Two women comfortably installed in an obscure department of a large organisation until a shadow falls across their tranquil lives - is it redundancy? | ||||
Habeas Corpus |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Permissive society is taken to task through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual encounters. | ||||
Hand Of God, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Talking Heads 2" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Her Big Chance |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Complete Talking Heads" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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History Boys, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.. Staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose. | ||||
Insurance Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | BBC 2 | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Two Kafka Plays", Faber, London | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | Radio Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: I saw Will and Gary on a wet afternoon in Weston-Super-Mare and knew they were a play | ||||
Kafka's Dick |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | French, London. (also in "Two Kafka Plays", Faber, London, 1987 | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: In 1919 Kafka's literary agent publishes his works against the dead author's wishes. in 1980 everybody reappears to get in on the act with a Kafka besotted insurance agent. | ||||
Lady in the Van, The |
| 1st Produced: | Queen's, London | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2000 | ||
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Synopsis: Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up staying fifteen years. Funny, touching and unexpectedly spectacular, The Lady in the Van marked the return to the stage of one of our leading playwrights. | ||||
Lady Of Letters, A |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy, London | 1992 | ||
| Company: | Duncan C Weldon | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1988 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a lonely lady who writes letters, they are mostly letters of complaint to the authorities in Yorkshire where she has little to do but watch her neighbours and lament the disintegration of community | ||||
Madness Of George III, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1992 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Explores the nature of kingship itself. | ||||
Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Complete Talking Heads" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Nights In The Garden Of Spain |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Complete Talking Heads" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Office Suite |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1981 | ||
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| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: includes Green Forms, televised as Doris and Doreen, 1978, and A Visit from Mrs Prothero, televised 1978 | ||||
Synopsis: Recently retired man at home contemplating his life and achievements with quiet satisfaction when his former secretary arrives to ruin it all. | ||||
Old Country, The |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | Nostalgic Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: all very English as visitors arrive, but in fact man is a spy who has fled and it seems he must now return | ||||
Outside Dog, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Complete Talking Heads" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Playing Sandwiches |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Complete Talking Heads" BBC, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Prick Up Your Ears |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adapted From John Lahr's Biography Of Joe Orton | ||||
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Private Function, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: From A Story By Alan Bennett And Malcolm Mowbray | ||||
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Question Of Attribution |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Single Spies", Faber, London | 1989 | ||
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