Lady in the Van - Couverture souple

Bennett, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573112665 ISBN 13 : 9780573112669

Editeur : Samuel French Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Genre: Comedy

Characters: 9 males, 5 females

Scenery: Various sets

Alan Bennett draws from his memoirs to offer a dramatized account of the genteel vagrant, Miss Shepard, who parked her van in his driveway for fifteen years. Maggie Smith starred in London's West End.

"A wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett's Camden garden, thereby providing him with roughly equal amounts of good journalistic copy and guilty landlord irritation." -Spectator

"Hilarious...A consistently enjoyable entertainment." -The New York Times

"Without doubt, the best new play of the year." -Daily Telegraph

"Bennett's writing is nimble, ironical, cruel and humane...Gives the West End one of its saddest, funniest, and most distinguished offerings for years." -London Times

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. A kind homeowner invites her to move her van into his garden. A bizarre tale in itself, but when the homeowner is writer Alan Bennett and the lady stays for 15 years, it's a tale that provides the raw material for a book and a stage play. This is the fascinating story of Miss Shepherd, the genteel vagrant who found a unique place in Alan Bennett's life and writing. Adapted from his stage play and directed by Gordon House, this radio version stars Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett and Adrian Scarborough.

2 CDs. 1 hr 32 mins.

Revue de presse

"Truly brilliant and totally unmissable" (Radio Times)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Samuel French Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573112665
• ISBN 13: 9780573112669
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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