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Alan Bennett introduces Allelujah!

I have been writing plays (slightly to my surprise) for 50 years and more and it is a bit late in the day to confess that I tend to write a play before I do the research for it. Otherwise, knowing myself, I’m likely to get too interested not to say bogged down in the facts and so never get round to writing the play.

I first realised this in the 1960s when I was just beginning as a writer, putting together sketches for the Saturday night TV shows that came after That Was The Week That Was. I knew nothing about television and not much more about sketch writing and so made the mistake of over-researching a topic in order to pull out facts that the audience didn’t know. This may have been informative but it wasn’t always funny and I learned early on that in order to interest and amuse an audience one needed to know more than they did but not much more. Ever since I’ve tended to write first and ask questions afterwards. One of the many reasons why I’m happily paired with Nicholas Hytner is that he is of a more literal cast of mind and readily

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Alan Bennett

The Uncommon Reader

3.74 avg rating — 56,886 ratings — published 2007 — 131 editions

The History Boys

3.95 avg rating — 11,253 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions

The Lady in the Van

3.71 avg rating — 10,659 ratings — published 1989 — 43 editions

Nudi e crudi
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3.61 avg rating — 6,403 ratings — published 1996 — 30 editions

Smut

3.50 avg rating — 4,235 ratings — published 2011 — 38 editions

Talking Heads

4.28 avg rating — 2,112 ratings — published 1988 — 20 editions

Untold Stories

4.13 avg rating — 1,858 ratings — published 2001 — 24 editions

Writing Home

4.16 avg rating — 1,490 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions

A Life Like Other People's

3.92 avg rating — 1,456 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions

La cerimonia del massaggio
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3.58 avg rating — 1,560 ratings — published 2001 — 26 editions

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List of works by Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett is an English playwright.

Having started at the Royal National Theatre, he became known for such works as Talking Heads, The Madness of King George, The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Habit of Art. The following plays were later adapted into films, The Madness of King George (1995), The History Boys (2005), and The Lady in the Van (2015).

Television

A Trip to the Moon (actor), 1964
The Saint (actor; 3 episodes), 1964–65
Sunday Night (actor; 1 episode), 1965
My Father Knew Lloyd George (actor and co-writer), 1965
Famous Gossips (actor; 1 episode), 1965
Plato—The Drinking Party, 1965
Alice in Wonderland (actor), 1966
On the Margin (actor & writer), 1966–67
Not Only... But Also (actor; 1 episode), 1970
Hamlet (actor), 1971^[1]
A Day Out (writer and bit role), 1972
Sunset Across the Bay (writer), 1975
A Little Outing (actor and writer), 1975
A Visit from Miss Prothero (writer and narrator), 1978
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (narrator an