If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. Alan Bennett's wonderful play has finally arrived in the West End . . . and there are many moments that cut at the heart like a knife. We think of Bennett as a great comic writer, and so he is, but he can also be the most moving of dramatists.
Daily Telegraph
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 stage including
Forty Years On,
The Lady in the Van,
A Question of Attribution,
The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay
The Madness of King George), and
The History Boys. His collection of prose,
Untold Stories, won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006.
The Uncommon Reader was published in 2007 and Smut was published in 2011.