Details

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. A Cream Cracker Under the Settee(Sep 5/10/12/17/19/24) - 'Here's this cream cracker. Naught wrong with it. Making a lot of crumbs. Have to have a surreptitious go with the Ewbank. 'Doris. The Ewbank is out of bounds. Out of bounds to her too, by the looks of it. A cream cracker under the settee. She wants reporting. Can't report her now. I've destroyed the evidence' Bed Among the Lentils (Sep 4/6/11/18/20/25/27) - 'The sermon was about sex. I didn't actually nod off, though I have heard it before. Marriage gives the OK to sex is the gist of it ... So, Geoffrey concludes, when we put our money in the plate it is a symbol of everything in our lives we are offering to God and that includes our sex. I could only find 10p.'

Cast/Performers

Shelia Collings (A Cream Cracker Under the Settee), Leda Hodgson (Bed Among the Lentils)

Creatives/Company

Author: Alan Bennett
Producer: Bridewell
Director(s): Carol Metcalfe, Eric Dupin