by Alan Bennett Directed by William Wilkinson Main House Cast Photos

Stories about eccentrics who buck convention and kick authority are always a vicarious joy, especially when they make the rest of the world look fools.

Alan Bennett tells a true story (well, more or less true) of an elderly lady with pretensions to grandeur reduced to living in a van in his back garden. It is very funny, acerbic and touching, styled with fascinating fluidity. Bennett creates two Alan Bennetts, deploys fanciful breaks with reality and makes no pretence that this is really a play about writing a play about the fortuitous presence of an uninvited, long-stay and extraordinary lodger.

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