Directed by Geoff Gaskill
Nov 23, 24, 30, Dec 01, 06, 07, 08 at 8PM
Matinees: Nov 25 and Dec 02 at 2PM

An eccentric is odd. Ask anyone.

Edith Sitwell believed they just couldn’t adapt to the world’s norms.

No one does eccentrics better than the English.

So what happened when playwright Alan Bennett encounters the lady in the van?

In 1974 Alan Bennett met Miss Mary Shepherd, an elderly lady living in a van in the street near his home in London. He took pity on her and allowed her to park her van in his garden, the idea being that she would stay three months. Her stay extended to fifteen years.

Between talking to the Virgin Mary, Khrushchev and Mother Teresa, among others and generally making life uncomfortable for Bennett, Miss Shepherd was one of a kind.

And yet, despite it all, “you could forgive her everything.”

Alan Bennett’s funny and bittersweet comic play is a moving dramatisation of his memoir of a lethally dotty woman.

 

Information Session: TBA
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