Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf: A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Visit From Mrs. Pr - Softcover

Bennett, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571220428 ISBN 13: 9780571220427

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2003

Synopsis

Alan Bennett is the acknowledged master of the television play. This vintage collection of his work from the 1970s illustrates his skill and mastery of the medium from the beginning. Perceptive, poignant, truthful and very funny, the work here gives as much enjoyment in the reading as it did in the viewing, and provides a welcome addition to the Bennett canon.

The television plays included are A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Visit from Miss Prothero, Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Green Forms, The Old Crowd and Afternoon Off. This volume contains a new general introduction by Alan Bennett, as well as the original preface by Lindsay Anderson to The Old Crowd.

A companion volume of Alan Bennett's work from the late 1970s and early 1980s is published as Rolling Home.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway,The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys. The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009; in 2012, People, as well as the two short plays Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, was also staged there.

His latest collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, was published in 2016. Of his two previous collections, Writing Home was a number one bestseller and Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. Bennett's Six Poets, Hardy to Larkin, An Anthology, was published in 2014. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.

Synopsis:

Published to coincide with a retrospective of Alan Bennett's television work at the National Film Theatre, this collection is full of the observations of life as it is lived, and includes: "A Day Out"; "Sunset Across the Bay"; " A Visit from Miss Prothero"; "Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf"; "Green Forms"; "The Old Crowd"; and "Afternoon Off". The volume also contains a full introduction from the author and anecdotes and recollections of fliming at the time and looking back now.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571220428
• ISBN 13: 9780571220427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256