In Understanding Alan Bennett, Peter Wolfe conveys Bennett's
originality, complexities of thought, and creative vigor while
examining Bennett in his various roles as actor, director,
playwright, and lyricist. As Wolfe illustrates, Bennett's success
in his many spheres was no fluke. Bennett's theatrical eminence has
been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play
Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's best comedy for
1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968,
have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec
Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, and Daniel Day
Lewis. His screenwriting earned The Madness of King George a
nomination for an Academy Award, and Talking Heads was in its
twenty-seventh printing in 1995, after seven years in print.
Bennett's ability to write scripts at once funny and sad has
lifted him to heights occupied by few of his peers. Understanding
Alan Bennett illuminates the writer whose instinct for artistic
choices has helped him succeed on his own terms.
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