Plays by Author - Alan Bennett

The Lady in the Van

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

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 Camde...

$12.99

Alan Bennett - Plays 2

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribut...

$24.99

Habeas Corpus

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 5 Female

A gorgeously vulgar farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body In the home of Dr. Arthur Wicksteed wild and wicked things go on in a Feydeau style fashion Along with the lecherous doct...

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Alan Bennett - Plays 1 - Forty years on & Getting on & Habeas Corpus & Enjoy

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance

$24.99

Enjoy

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

8 Male 3 Female

Dad believes that everything will get better when the family move It becomes evident that it is all far more complicated when their social worker turns out to be absent son Terry, idolized by Mam, in drag ...

$12.99

Allelujah!

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to t...

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People

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

"People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do?" Dorothy'...

$12.99

Single Spies - An Englishman Abroad & A Question of Attribution

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 1 Female

Single Spies is a double bill by Alan Bennett An Englishman Abroad tells the true story of actress Coral Browne's meeting with Guy Burgess in Moscow in 1958 A Question of Attribution' tells the story of An...

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Green Forms

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Doris and Doreen are comfortably installed in an obscure department of a large organization On a normal day they keep busy by flirting with nice Mr Tidmarsh in Appointments or pursuing their feud over a plu...

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The Old Country

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

Hilary and Bron await the arrival of Hilary's sister and brother-in-law in a very English setting. Hilary snoozes on the veranda listening to Elgar, whilst Bron potters around the garden. The visitors arrive...

$12.99

A Woman of No Importance - A monologue from Talking Heads

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

0 Male 1 Female

$12.99

Me - I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf - also includes A Day Out & Sunset Across the Bay & A Visit from Miss Prothero & Afternoon Off

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

Published to coincide with a retrospective of Alan Bennett's television work at the National Film Theatre, this collection is full of the observations of life as it is lived, and includes: "A Day Out"; "Suns...

$12.99

Talking Heads

Alan Bennett

BBC Publishing

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC TelevisionAt once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully...

$14.99

The Habit of Art

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

"You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play" Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera Death in Venice, ...

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Kafka's Dick

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 1 Female

This hilarious and unusual play satirizes the ridiculous propensity we often have to show less interest in an artist's work than in meaningless details of his private life, such as his sex life It begins wi...

$12.99

The History Boys

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

Best Play 2004 Evening Standard Award Critics' Circle Award Laurence Olivier Award "The school gives them an education. I give them the wherewithal to resist it. Examine a boy and he is tamed already. On...

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