Talking Heads - A Lady of Letters/Bed Among the Lentils/Her Big Chance/A Chip in the Sugar

Play :: show/work:S5191, production/tour:T916110477

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6 Dec 11 to 10 Dec 11

Talking Heads - A Lady of Letters/Bed Among the Lentils/Her Big Chance/A Chip in the Sugar Play :: listing:L909128252, production:T916110477, show:S5191, venue: V254

Landor Theatre Inner London Greater London

Details

A series of monologues, funny and poignant, normally from two to four of these would be performed at a time. A Cream Cracker Under The Settee tells of an old woman who has a fall, but her pride doesn't allow her to accept help. Bed Among the Lentils tells of a woman with a drink problem, married to a vicar who exploits her recovery actually caused by an affair with an Indian shopkeeper. A Lady of Letters is the story of a woman obsessed with writing letters of complaint and reporting her neighbours who eventually finds comfort in prison. Soldiering On is the tale of a well-to-do woman who finds one day that she's a widow and her husband has left her ill equipped to handle her own affairs - and her son loses her money in bad investments.
Performers Anne Connell (A Lady of Letters), Caitlin Homes (Bed Among the Lentils), Miranda Moore (Her Big Chance), Ian Recordon (A Chip in the Sugar). Author Alan Bennett. Producer Emily Kate Stephens. Director Victor Craven. Design Lucy Walker. Lighting Matt Hudson. Sound Tony Charlton. Music Paul Rissman.