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" Bed Among the Lentils " is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and GCSE English syllabus. [1] It was the third episode of the ...
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Libri di Alan Bennett in ordine cronologico di uscita. Ecco i migliori 20 libri scritti da Alan Bennett fino ad oggi.
Alan Bennett dove meno ci si aspetterebbe di trovarlo: fra le sale della National Gallery, a raccontare grandi quadri – lui un cicerone diverso da qualsiasi altro, i lettori a ridere senza freni, come succede di ridere solo in classe o, appunto, alle visite guidate.
Alan Bennett è nato a Leeds, nello Yorkshire, il 9 maggio 1934. Il padre era macellaio, la madre casalinga. A Cambridge, Bennett comincia a scrivere sketch insieme a Michael Frayn. Poi si diploma, e gli ci vogliono due anni per decidere di non diventare pastore della chiesa anglicana. Ma la vocazione e la sua crisi si rivelano proficue, se nel 1959 Alan Bennett debutterà al Fringe Festival ...
Alan Bennett's passage on ‘The Mantelpiece’ is taken from a published play, Enjoy, put on at the Vaudeville in 1980 and revived in 2009. The excerpt about the little items that we collect over time is followed by an autobiographical sketch of Bennett as a 10-year-old boy spending time at his grandmother’s house.
The Madness of George III is a 1991 play by Alan Bennett. It is a fictionalised biographical study of the latter half of the reign of George III of the United Kingdom, his battle with mental illness, and the inability of his court to handle his condition. It was adapted for film in 1994 as The Madness of King George .
