Talking Heads
From 7th September 1998
To 12th September 1998
Alan Bennett
Three delightful monologues
Directors notes
The main theme of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" are loneliness and a failure to understand life and oneself.
In "Bed among the Lentils" Susan, a wise figure, is trapped in an unhappy situation from which she is unable to free herself and takes to the bottle and an extra-marital affair.
Doris, in "The Cream Cracker under the Settee", spends much of her time remembering her dead husband, Wilfred, the early married days and the loss of their baby. She has nothing to look forward to accept an old People's home.
Paul Lesley, in "Her Big Chance", thinks she is a sensitive and mature
person but her view of herself is mistaken as is revealed by her comic misjudgment
of the success of her social and professional life.