{"id":267,"date":"2024-07-29T22:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2024-07-29T22:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T22:31:15","slug":"an-evening-of-works-by-alan-bennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/an-evening-of-works-by-alan-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening of Works by Alan Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>18th-22nd Oct, 2011. The Mill Theatre Dundrum.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Woman of Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A monologue written by&nbsp;Alan Bennett&nbsp;in 1987 for television, as part of his&nbsp;<em>Talking Heads<\/em>&nbsp;series for the BBC.&nbsp;This satirical tragic-comedy is about a middle aged woman called Irene Ruddock who writes letters of criticism and the short period in her life when her letter writing is most malicious and trouble making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bed Among the Lentils<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another monologue taken from the <em>Talking Heads<\/em>&nbsp;series. Susan is the miserable wife of a adored vicar, whose life starts to look up when she encounters the local Indian grocer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Visit From Miss Prothero<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the death of his beloved wife and three decades running Warburtons \u2013 the nature of the business is never specified but sounds mind-numbingly tedious \u2013 Mr Dodgson has retired. Four months in, he\u2019s discovered a contentedness in a life beyond work thanks to a social whirl of bowling, Rotary and pottery classes.&nbsp;But peace is disrupted by an impromptu visit from the busybody of the title, who, in the guise of bringing him up to date, makes him question his entire life\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;DIRECTOR \u2013 Joe McPartlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18th-22nd Oct, 2011. The Mill Theatre Dundrum. A Woman of Letters A monologue written by&nbsp;Alan Bennett&nbsp;in 1987 for television, as part of his&nbsp;Talking Heads&nbsp;series for the BBC.&nbsp;This satirical tragic-comedy is about a middle aged woman called Irene Ruddock who writes letters of criticism and the <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/an-evening-of-works-by-alan-bennett\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyfordlittletheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}