Untold Stories

Untold Stories

Alan Bennett

Untold Stories is Alan Bennett's first major collection since Writing Home, and is a compendium of some of his very finest and funniest writing from the last nine years. The book includes significant unpublished work, including the title piece, a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews, and comic pieces. Alan Bennett first appeared on the stage in 1960 as one of the authors and performers of the revue Beyond the Fringe. His stage plays include Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus, The Old Country, Enjoy and The Lady in the Van. He has written many television plays, notably A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Woman of No Importance and the series of monologues Talking Heads. An adaptation of his television play An Englishman Abroad was paired with A Question of Attribution in the double bill Single Spies, first produced at the National Theatre in 1988, followed in 1990 by his adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and in 1991 by The Madness of George III. Bennett's most recent play, The History Boys, premiered at the National in May 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best New Play.