... I find with Bennett’s work that I read in character and this is no exception… every piece is read in the voice of the performer (Alan Bennett, Maggie Smith, Patricia Routledge, Julie Walters, Stephanie Cole and Thora Hird).
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Advantages: Compulsive reading from start to finish. Disadvantages: Only that 2 pages of the introduction were repeated in a later Bennett collection.
To say that I’m a bit of a Bennett fan is something of an understatement and it was this particular offering that holds the blame! Talking Heads, a set of six monologues, was published and televised in 1988 and held captivated a 15 year old with no particular interest in books or plays – it has remained one of my favourite pieces of writing by any author ever since. Not that the ‘stories’ found within the book are plays in the strictest sense of ... ...introduction, a play allows you to see things from the perspective of several featured characters. In a monologue you are reliant upon the viewpoints of a single character; you must read between the lines in order to draw your own conclusions. I think it is this aspect of Bennett’s work that first appealed to me… reading or listening to one of his monologues was very much like sitting in a cosy room with any one of my great aunties! Unable to get ...
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