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Book Review: Smut by Alan Bennett
Imagine, if you will, that the cast of Monty Python got together and wrote dirty little stories. Only they wrote them in a somewhat serious mode of course, being Monty Python they would need to be full of tongue-in-cheek satire and cynical humor that shone a mirror back at the inanities of real life and real people and society in general.
Alan Bennet's Lady in the Van arrives in Malvern
THE highly acclaimed Hull Truck production of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van opens at Malvern Theatres on Tuesday and runs until Saturday, June 2. Heart-warming and heart-breaking, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Alan Bennett's unusual neighbour - a lady who lives in a clapped-out Bedford Van, parked in his front garden.
In the 1970's, a group of ruthless Irish punks called the "Westies", managed to terrorize Hell's Kitchen in New York City.
Author supports library campaign
Award-winning British author Alan Bennett has given his support to a campaign to stop the closure of two libraries on the Isle of Man.
The Madness of George lll - review
At times, Alan Bennett 's The Madness of George lll seems like a one-man show - in spite of its sizable cast.
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