Alan Bennett
A brief encounter with Muriel, Alan Bennett’s latest talking head
Frances de la Tour plays another of the playwright’s fascinating women in a three-minute sketch for Nottingham Playhouse’s digital series
Arifa Akbar
07, May, 2021 @6:30 PM
Theatre: Susannah Clapp's 10 best of 2020
Our critic looks back on dazzling state-of-the-nation monologues and valiant virtual reimaginings, Ovid and Oliver Twist
Susannah Clapp
26, Dec, 2020 @5:00 PM
Alan Bennett’s 2020 diary reveals growing health struggles
At 86, the playwright says arthritis is increasingly restrictive, but also finds room for satirical jabs at Boris Johnson’s government and everyday comedy
Alison Flood
23, Dec, 2020 @1:00 PM
A dramatic year: the 10 best theatre shows of 2020
As the industry faced turmoil, there were triumphant stagings of classics by Sarah Kane, David Mamet and Alan Bennett – and bold new experiments
Arifa Akbar
23, Dec, 2020 @9:00 AM
Nights in the Gardens of Spain & Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet review – fetish with flair
Tamsin Greig flutters while Maxine Peake is uproarious in a fiendish double bill from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series
Susannah Clapp
11, Oct, 2020 @9:30 AM
Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet review – pain and passion in Bennett duo
Tamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
Arifa Akbar
02, Oct, 2020 @12:37 PM
Playing Sandwiches and Lady of Letters review – Alan Bennett's quiet shockers
There are devastating moments and fine performances by Imelda Staunton and Lucian Msamati in this pair of Talking Heads
Arifa Akbar
30, Sep, 2020 @12:14 PM
The Shrine & Bed Among the Lentils review – silent screams from Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville
The wide-open space of the Bridge is commanded with riveting intimacy in this Talking Heads double bill
Susannah Clapp
13, Sep, 2020 @9:30 AM
The Outside Dog and The Hand of God review – chintz and terror from Alan Bennett
Rochenda Sandall is sensational as a woman suspicious of her husband’s behaviour, while Kristin Scott Thomas’s genteel dowager revels in nostalgia
Arifa Akbar
11, Sep, 2020 @12:16 PM
The Shrine and Bed Among the Lentils review – Manville and Dolan are magnificent
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads monologues were TV gold during lockdown. Seeing Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville perform them live is even better
Arifa Akbar
09, Sep, 2020 @10:55 AM
Line of Duty's Rochenda Sandall: 'There are so many dimensions to domestic abuse'
After her villainous role in the explosive police drama, the star is playing an isolated woman in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and an activist in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
Arifa Akbar
08, Sep, 2020 @12:08 PM
The week in TV: Talking Heads; Perry Mason; The Luminaries; The School That Tried to End Racism - review
Alan Bennett’s masterly monologues rebooted; Matthew Rhys makes a superb young Perry Mason; and Channel 4’s anti-racism experiment
Euan Ferguson
28, Jun, 2020 @8:30 AM
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