In August 1960, Bennett – along with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook – gained fame after an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, with the show continuing in London and New York. He also appeared in My Father Knew Lloyd George. His television comedy sketch series On the Margin (1966) was erased; the BBC re-used expensive videotape rather than keep it in the archives. However, in 2014 it was announced that audio copies of the entire series had been found. [4] Bennett, Alan (2014). "Fair Play". London Review of Books. 36 (12): 29–30 . Retrieved 13 June 2014. What's on - Untold Stories". West Yorkshire Playhouse. 2 June 2014. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. The diary entries which occupy a substantial part of the volume are a chronicle of passing time, a series of aperçus rather than extended narrative. Though they are wonderful to dip into, because of their essential bittiness they are the least satisfactory section of the book to read through from end to end, as a reviewer must. Discovered in more normal circumstances, they are full of delights. One thing which is particularly fascinating is that because the entries chronicle the passing moment, there are occasional insights into creative process, when some random fragment of information sets off a train of thought which eventually ends up in a play.

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Bennett adapted his 1991 play The Madness of George III for the cinema. Entitled The Madness of King George (1994), the film received four Academy Award nominations: for Bennett's writing and the performances of Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren. It won the award for best art direction. We had left Mam at a hospital that morning looking, even after weeks of illness, not much different from her usual self: weeping and distraught, it's true, but still plump and pretty, clutching her everlasting handbag and still somehow managing to face the world. As I followed my father down the ward I wondered why we were bothering: there was no such person here.

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I do ask, though, about his other revelation, ‘the similar do’ he had told Mr Parr that Mam had had just before they were married. Was that to do with the suicide, I ask, as it must have been around the same time? Not really, says Dad. He thinks it was more to do with their wedding.

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It is this errand that has brought us straight from Lancaster to Settle this September night to Mr Parr’s bleak office above the police station. Alan Bennett: 'I don't fret about posterity. But some things will last' | Alan Bennett". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 February 2022. Ferguson, Euan (31 May 2014). "The Complainers; The Story of Women and Art; Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos – review". The Guardian. George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976) And there’s no shame in taking your time with it, because it’s that kind of read. You could even dip in and out of it if you wanted to, although I’d advise against it. The problem with doing that is that you’d never know when you finished, and there’d also be a risk that you’d find yourself re-reading something that you’d already read.Except affliction was normal too and this one seemingly more common than I’d thought. Arriving at the lighted villa in its own little park, we found we were far from alone, the carpark full, the nurse busy at Reception, and hanging about the entrance hall as in all institutions (hospitals, law courts, passport offices), characters who joked with the staff, were clued up on the routine and, whether visitors or patients, seemed utterly at home. It was one of these knowing individuals, a young man familiar rather than affable, who took us along to what the nurse said was Mam’s ward.

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Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977) The suicide, though, he cannot be persuaded to discuss. Having let on to the fact, he still seems to want to keep it hidden and will not be questioned about it, sensing perhaps that my interest in it is as drama and only one stage up from gossip. As a child I was clever and knew it and when I showed off, as I often did, Dad would not trouble to hide his distaste. I detect a whiff of that still; he is probably wishing he’d kept his mouth shut and never mentioned the tragedy at all. The poor Queen is to be forced to go mournabout. I suppose it is a revolution, but with Rosa Luxemburg played by Sharon and Tracy.” The process of dipping has been hugely facilitated by an index - even better, the index has been made by someone with a sense of humour - 'Llanberis pass, Wales: AB's 17-year-old thigh stroked (no trauma resulting)'. More unfortunately, corners have been cut with proofreading, and with prose so accurate, typos look particularly dreadful (for instance, 'stroked' in the quoted sentence is actually printed as 'stoked').Jody Abrahams, Loukmaan Adams, Mandisa Bardill, Junaid Booysen, Salie Daniels, and Alistair Izobell (1999)