Description
Book SynopsisGenre: Comedy
Characters: 9 males, 5 females
Scenery: Various sets
Alan Bennett draws from his memoirs to offer a dramatized account of the genteel vagrant, Miss Shepard, who parked her van in his driveway for fifteen years. Maggie Smith starred in London''s West End.
A wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett''s Camden garden, thereby providing him with roughly equal amounts of good journalistic copy and guilty landlord irritation. -Spectator
Hilarious...A consistently enjoyable entertainment. -The New York Times
Without doubt, the best new play of the year. -Daily Telegraph
Bennett''s writing is nimble, ironical, cruel and humane...Gives the West End one of its saddest, funniest, and most distinguished offerings for years. -London Times
Trade Review"...a wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett's Camden garden, thereby providing him with a roughly equal amount of good journalistic copy and guilty landlordly irritation." Sheridan Morley, Spectator"
