Lady in the Van - Brossura

Bennett, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571204716 ISBN 13: 9780571204717

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber Ltd, 2000

Riassunto

Adapted by the author from his autobiographic memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up staying fifteen years.

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Descrizione del libro:

The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett is a funny, touching and unexpectedly spectacular play, marking the return to the stage of one of the nation's leading playwrights.

L'autore:

Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway,The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys. The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009; in 2012, People, as well as the two short plays Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, was also staged there.

His latest collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, was published in 2016. Of his two previous collections, Writing Home was a number one bestseller and Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. Bennett's Six Poets, Hardy to Larkin, An Anthology, was published in 2014. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0571204716
• ISBN 13: 9780571204717
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128