Lyttelton, LondonI sometimes feel I know Alan Bennett's family almost as well as my own. But, although these two "recollections" contain material that will be familiar to readers of Bennett's memoirs Untold Stories, they make a surprisingly rich theatrical event: they not only convey his peculiar ironic-elegiac tone, but, through their vivid particularity, stir your recollections of adolescence.Hymn, though…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AM on September 7, 2015