ALAN BENNETT has been a leading dramatist since
Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include
Talking Heads,
Forty Years On,
The Lady in the Van,
A Question of Attribution,
The Madness of George III, an adaptation of
The Wind in the Willows, The History Boys,
The Habit of Art,
People,
Hymn,
Cocktail Sticks and
Allelujah! His collections of prose are
Writing Home,
Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006) and
Keeping On, Keeping On.
Six Poets contains Bennett's selection of English verse, accompanied by his commentary. His fiction includes
The Uncommon Reader and
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories., Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of
Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series
Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic and, some thirty years after the original six, they were recorded for the BBC during the exceptional circumstances of the 2020 lockdown, including two new monologues, published as
Two Besides.
His many works for the stage include
Forty Years On,
The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay),
A Question of Attribution,
The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay
The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's
The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London,
The History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards including
Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway,
The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys.
The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009; in 2012,
People, as well as the two short plays
Hymn and
Cocktail Sticks, was also staged there.
Allelujah! premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, in 2018.
His collections of prose are
Writing Home,
Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006) and
Keeping On, Keeping On. Bennett's selection of English verse, accompanied by his commentary is published in
Six Poets, Hardy to Larkin.
Alan Bennett's fiction includes
The Uncommon Reader and
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.
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