ALAN BENNETT   (1934 - )


Alan Bennett
   Nationality:
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Plays by Alan Bennett

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
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ALAN BENNETT
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
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ALAN BENNETT
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
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ALAN BENNETT
Clothes They Stood Up In, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1998
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
Cream Cracker Under The Settee, A
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
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
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ALAN BENNETT
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
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ALAN BENNETT
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.
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ALAN BENNETT
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.
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ALAN BENNETT
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
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a disenchanted socialist MP who doesn't like people contends with his passing years
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ALAN BENNETT
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?
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ALAN BENNETT
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.
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ALAN BENNETT
Hand Of God, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Talking Heads 2" BBC, London
1998
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
Her Big Chance
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:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
History Boys, The
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2004
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
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.
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ALAN BENNETT
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
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ALAN BENNETT
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:
-
Notes: -
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.
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ALAN BENNETT
Lady in the Van, The
1st Produced:
Queen's, London
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2000
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
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.
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ALAN BENNETT
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
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ALAN BENNETT
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:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Explores the nature of kingship itself.
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ALAN BENNETT
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:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
Nights In The Garden Of Spain
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:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
Office Suite
1st Produced:
London
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1981
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
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.
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ALAN BENNETT
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
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ALAN BENNETT
Outside Dog, The
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:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
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: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
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
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
Private Function, A
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1984
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Genre:
Screenplay
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: From A Story By Alan Bennett And Malcolm Mowbray
Synopsis:
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ALAN BENNETT
Question Of Attribution
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Single Spies", Faber, London
1989
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