TALKING ABOUT TALKING HEADS (Talking Heads - Alan Bennett)

Member Name: michellemcc

Product:	Talking Heads - Alan Bennett
Date:	13/11/01 (797 review reads)
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I am doing an evening class at college at the moment, studying English. Our teacher introduced us to Alan Bennet and I have to say, I really enjoy his monologues. They are very cleverly written, all about someone just talking on their own, often about the elderly.
Alan Bennet has a lot of humour in his work, but not rip-roaring side splitting humour, just something to snigger about. For example "Cream Cracker under the settee" is about an elderly woman who lives on her own. She's very independent but has a home help. Shes not very impressed with this home help though and once she's gone Doris (the mail character)tries to clean things shes missed. She falls though and hurts her leg, and can't move. She then starts talking about the past, how her hubby was a waste of space but you still get the impression she cared for him very much. She does'nt know what to do because she can really only shuffle along the floor, when she spots a cream cracker, dusts it off and eats it! She see's a boy in her back yard and thinks about going to ask him for help but then she sees him peeing by her dustbin, and tells him to scram!

Lady of letters is another story that comes highly reccommended.

Alan Bennet is a highly talented a man, definitley worth a read.

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