Writing Home

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), andan 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.Alan Bennett's collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, publishes in October 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. Fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.

出版者:Faber & Faber

作者:Alan Bennett

页数:0

出版时间:1995

价格:0

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780571173891

图书标签:AlannBennett

Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, as well as many other important productions. His television series 'Talking Heads' has become a modern-day classic; as part of the 1960s revue 'Beyond the Fringe' Bennett helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dramatists, most recently with The History Boys at the National Theatre.

At the heart of the book is The Lady in The Van, since adapted into a radio play featuring Dame Maggie Smith. It is the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in Bennett's garden and stayed for fifteen years. This new edition also includes Bennett's introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George and his more recent diaries.

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一点一点读完，如同置身梦中。他在 Harrogate的旅馆里寻找人来告诉他们不需要embarrassment，他置身远景回忆年少时，反倒有种亲密感。每天早晨在桌上看到他的面孔，总会让我对未来有很甜蜜的期待。AB 让我想到 fisher，既远又近的细密想象。

一点一点读完，如同置身梦中。他在 Harrogate的旅馆里寻找人来告诉他们不需要embarrassment，他置身远景回忆年少时，反倒有种亲密感。每天早晨在桌上看到他的面孔，总会让我对未来有很甜蜜的期待。AB 让我想到 fisher，既远又近的细密想象。

一点一点读完，如同置身梦中。他在 Harrogate的旅馆里寻找人来告诉他们不需要embarrassment，他置身远景回忆年少时，反倒有种亲密感。每天早晨在桌上看到他的面孔，总会让我对未来有很甜蜜的期待。AB 让我想到 fisher，既远又近的细密想象。