by Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett. Or, as my sister more forthrightly puts it 'Alan fucking Bennett.' We drove to another country to see this last night, which I say as an Australian would say that. Let me use a kids' word...it was a cool thing to do.But I have to admit as time goes on and I age and Alan F. Bennett does...
This is a multi-layered story within a story, so a little like the film “Synecdoche, New York” by Charlie Kaufman. It is set during the rehearsal of a rather weak play about a fictitious meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten near the end of their lives. So the actors play actors playing othe...