Lyttelton, National Theatre, London: Alan Bennett is often described as a national treasure; and as one of Nicholas Hytner's leading house playwrights, has certainly become a National Theatre one. Now, with his sixth play for Hytner there, he peers behind "the ragged footings of the tapestries, gnawed by mice and wet by centuries of dogs" of a disheveled stately home in Yorkshire for a sometimes scabro…
SOURCE: The Stage at 04:46AM on November 8, 2012