The success of Alan Bennett’s monologue, A Woman of No Importance, with an award-winning performance by Patricia Routledge in 1982, encouraged Bennett to write more monologues for television. TALKING ...
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Alan Bennett is on record as saying to Nicholas Hytner, who directed the premiere at the National Theatre in 1991 that he thought The Madness of George III unstageable. The text, with its numerous sho ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews the One Man, Two Guvnors on line Puritans closed theatres on 6 September 1642 They did not reopen until the restoration of Charles II as king in 1660 Imagine no theatre for 18 y ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Two Ladies at Bridge Theatre, London SE1 Many years ago, back in the early 1980s, there was a play by Robert David Macdonald called Summit Conference which had a fictional meeti ...
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