Released on 17th February
‘The weasel under the cocktail cabinet’ – that's what Harold Pinter said his plays were about. Well, Alan Bennett's plays are about the rock in the rock bun.
By his own admission, Bennett isn't the cuddly national treasure he's often hailed as. His plays are so original and funny because of the dark seam beneath:, say, or the ruthlessness of Bennett's motives behind his apparent kindness in taking in the lady in