#alan bennet

[pashankylr]

2025.2 - "This is not a Day for Soundbites..."

BLOG: 2025.2 - "This is not a Day for Soundbites..." In what has been a shameful week for many invoveld in UK Politics, I think can be called "Gobbet Politics".

One of my favourite plays (and films) is Alan Bennett’s “The History Boys”, possibly because I loathe one of the characters. He is a tutor brought in to coach the titular boys through their Oxbridge applications.His advice to them was to be contrarian – not necessarily because you believe it – but because it is interesting. You must find a ‘gobbet’ (a quote or phrase or thought) around which to…

2025.2 - "This is not a Day for Soundbites..."

[s-memorando]

Alan Bennet: La sovrana lettrice

Alan Bennet: La sovrana lettrice

Sull’onda degli avvenimenti che stanno accadendo a Londra a seguito della morte della regna Elisabetta II mi è venuta voglia di leggere un agile libretto di Alan Bennet che mi sono ritrovata per caso nelle orecchie. Si, perché il libro in questione l’ho ascoltato dalla voce di Paola Cortellesi con Audibile, a cui sono abbonata. (Tra parentesi, gradevole la lettura della Cortellesi). Avevo letto…

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[italianotizie24]

Arturo Cirillo a Roma con “Il gioco del panino”

Arturo Cirillo a Roma con “Il gioco del panino”

29, 30 e 31 ottobre, Arturo Cirillo è in scena al teatro Belli di Roma con “Il gioco del panino” di Alan Bennet. (more…)

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[cornicivuote]

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

Alan Bennett, The History Boys

[martinmotherfckingfreeman]

Bennett bunch boost for NHS  

Alan Bennett and the cast and main creative team involved with his sublime new Talking Heads series have donated their fees — totalling more than £1 million — to a fund for NHS staff and volunteers.

Thirty individuals including the 12-strong cast who deliver the revealing monologues — Jodie Comer, Monica Dolan, Martin Freeman, Tamsin Greig, Sarah Lancashire, Lesley Manville, Lucian Msamati, Maxine Peake, Rochenda Sandall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Imelda Staunton, and Harriet Walter — agreed to waive payment for their work on what Bennett calls his ‘stripped down versions of short stories’. Instead, the money will go to NHS Charities Together.

Every single one of them began their careers in the theatre. Good people, those theatre folk.

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must have fallen and hit my head. the dailyfail actually said something nice about him?? even though it was a collective compliment lol.

[omeganny]

#Youtube: WrapUp letture di agosto 2017

#Youtube: WrapUp letture di agosto 2017

Cosa ho letto

ad agosto?

Streghe randagie, bambine velenose,

persone che fanno massaggi,

persone che muoiono

vecchie abbazie.

Enjoy.

XoXo

G.

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[watchaholics]

A kertbérlő (2015)

Bájos, könnyed kis vígjátékra számítottam, keserédes véggel, ám moralizáló, elmélkedő, negyedik fal-bontogató tragikomédiát kaptam. De Maggie Smith-ért akkor is megérte.

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