Talking Heads - Soldiering On/A Chip in the Sugar/A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

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.

Author

Alan Bennett

Listing:: L1437684934

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Soldiering On/A Chip in the Sugar/A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

Soldiering On - Newly bereaved but stoical Muriel confronts the future and finds that her husband was less than an ideal father and her beloved son is less than honest. A Chip in the Sugar - Middle-aged bachelor Graham lives with his eccentric mother. Their happy life is threatened by the arrival of an old flame from his mother's past, who sweeps her off for days out and chip suppers. A Cream Cracker Under the Settee - Obsessive about cleaning, Doris has tidied her husband into the grave and is dismayed by her home help's lack of vacuuming skills.