Understanding Alan Bennett

by Peter Wolfe

Book Overview

A study of the actor, director, playwright, and lyricist famous for Talking Heads and The Madness of King George

In August 1960 four young men who never planned to have show business careers launched a revue in Edinburgh comprising skits and parodies, songs and monologues, on subjects such as nuclear holocaust, the cold war, and capital punishment. The review, called Beyond the Fringe, made instant celebrities of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570032807
• ISBN13: 9781570032806
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.3"