Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, passsionsthat she never knew existed are arounded, and her mundane life becomes much more stimulating ....
This title includes unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. "The Shielding of Mrs Forbes" - Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him. But this is Alan Bennett, so no matter the importance of keeping up appearances, what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, and ultimately much more honest to people's predilections
For fifteen years, the recalcitrant Miss Shepherd lived in her broken-down van on Alan Bennett''s driveway in Camden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord, never under the illusion that his impulse was purely charitable. This account of those years was first published in 1989 in the London Review of Books. The play premiered in 1999, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Dame Maggie Smith, who reprise those roles in this new film adaptation. Shot on location at Bennett''s house, Alex Jennings plays the author, alongside household names including James Corden, Frances de la Tour, Jim Broadbent and Dominic Cooper.
Prendendo spunto dalla apparente follia di Giorgio III, Bennett ha dato voce agli intrighi comici e sinistri che in quegli anni si svilupparono rigogliosamente attorno al re. Non vi e traccia, in queste pagine, della penosa cartapesta che di solito contrassegna il teatro di ricostruzione storica. Da Pitt a Fox, da Giorgio III al suo malevolo primogenito, il Principe di Galles, tutti parlano e agiscono con una vivezza che lascia stupefatti. La vicenda finisce per disegnare un perfetto apologo sul delirio non solo dei potenti, ma innanzitutto di coloro che gli vivono accanto.
Si sa che non c''e nulla di piu mondano quanto un buon funerale. E ancor piu se si tratta di commemorare un estinto che, letteralmente, ha avuto per le mani la "creme de la creme", ambosessi, di Londra. E allora l''evento puo diventare, oltreche mondano, atrocemente intimo. E rischiare da un momento all''altro di sgangherarsi, se il suo programma prevede un preoccupante assolo di sax. E se uno dei convenuti si alza in piedi per tessere un panegirico dell''anatomia del trapassato.
Trovarsi la casa svaligiata dai ladri e senza dubbio un evento sinistro. Ma se spariscono anche la moquette, il rotolo della carta igienica, il forno e l''arrosto che attendeva lo scatto del timer, e palese che non puo trattarsi di un semplice furto. E l''allibita vittima, un avvocato londinese agiato e pedante, ha tutto il diritto di pensare a una beffa del destino, o a una nuova formula di candid camera. Travolti da una realta truce e idiota, l''avvocato e la sua spenta consorte si trovano ad affrontare un rompicapo di comica suspense, dal quale schizzano fuori colpi di scena turbinosi, mentre il lettore viene guidato verso un''esilarante catarsi di rara crudelta.
This title features unexpected tales from the master of short fiction The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either...
Que se passerait-il outre-Manche si, par le plus grand des hasards, Sa Majesté la Reine se découvrait une passion pour la lecture ? Si, tout d''un coup, plus rien n''arrêtait son insatiable soif de l
Untold Stories" brings together some of the finest and funniest writing by one of England's best-known literary figures. Bennett's first major collection since "Writing Home" contains previously unpublished work, along with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996 to 2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews, and comic pieces.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose. Fox Searchlight Pictures, DNA and the BBC have joined forces to bring the National Theatre's award-winning production of "The History Boys" to the big screen, directed by Nicholas Hytner from a script adapted for the screen by Alan Bennett.
