Talking Heads - A Lady of Letters/A Chip in the Sugar/Bed Among the Lentils
Work:: Talking Heads (S5191)
A series of monologues, funny and poignant, normally from two to four of these would be performed at a time.
A Cream Cracker Under The Settee tells of an old woman who has a fall, but her pride doesn't allow her to accept help.
Bed Among the Lentils tells of a woman with a drink problem, married to a vicar who exploits her recovery actually caused by an affair with an Indian shopkeeper.
A Lady of Letters is the story of a woman obsessed with writing letters of complaint and reporting her neighbours who eventually finds comfort in prison.
Soldiering On is the tale of a well-to-do woman who finds one day that she's a widow and her husband has left her ill equipped to handle her own affairs - and her son loses her money in bad investments.
Production:: A Lady of Letters/A Chip in the Sugar/Bed Among the Lentils (T1370417090)
Three of the very best from Alan Bennett's collection of masterpieces of contemporary monologues writing - first written for BBC TV and now regularly among the most popular nights out in theatres up and down Britain.
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A Lady of Letters/A Chip in the Sugar/Bed Among the Lentils
Three of the very best from Alan Bennett's collection of masterpieces of contemporary monologues writing - first written for BBC TV and now regularly among the most popular nights out in theatres up and down Britain.