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 Web Links More about and by Alan Bennett Bennett, Alan: British actor The Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago presents a concise introduction to Alan Bennett and his career. Includes listings of his television series and specials as well as radio and stage plays and publications. The Guardian profile: Alan Bennett An essay by Aida Edemariam about the author who "has been called everything from national treasure and prose laureate to curmudgeon laureate and Oracle of Little England. Yet the difference between Bennett the man and Bennett the image remains an enigma..." British Film Institute Alan Bennett was the focus of a two-month retrospective and the centerpiece of the British Film Institute's TV2003 season.
An overview of Bennett's significance and links to more info about selected credits, including synopses and production stills. Thora Hird and Alan Bennett This essay examines the half-dozen collaborations between the actress Thora Hird and playwright Alan Bennett. A review by Nick Breckenfield of a June 2004 performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. From classicalsource.com. Beyond the mundane: Alan Bennett, Britain's poet of self-awareness Boston's Museum of Fine Arts sponsored a retrospective of Bennett's television dramas in 1998; this review examines the program's characters and how "the sheer inventiveness and emotional range of their pitiless self-examination holds you spellbound..." From the Boston Phoenix. Alan Bennett on the history of the National Theatre Bennett wrote this personal essay on the National Theatre (the Olivier, the Lyttelton and the Cottesloe) on London's South Bank. Bibliography About Alan Bennett Bergan, Roland. Beyond the Fringe...and Beyond: A Critical Biography of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore. Virgin Books: London, 1990. Berney, K.A., editor. Contemporary British Dramatists. London: Washington: St. James, 1973; 5th edition, 1993. Wu, Duncan. Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors. London: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Wu, Duncan. Six Contemporary Dramatists: Bennett, Potter, Gray, Brenton, Hare, Ayckbourn. London: St. Martin's, 1995. By Alan Bennett, selected titles The Clothes They Stood Up In The Complete Beyond the Fringe, with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller The Complete Talking Heads Father! Father! Burning Bright Forty Years On Getting On Habeas Corpus The History Boys The Lady in the Van The Laying on of Hands: Stories Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf Objects of Affection and Other Plays for Television Rolling Home Single Spies Soldiering On Telling Tales Writing Home  Bennett's Introduction | Who's Who | Drama to Film Links + Bibliography | The Forum  Home | About The Series | The American Collection | The Archive Schedule & Season | Feature Library | eNewsletter | Book Club Learning Resources | Forum | Search | Shop | Feedback
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