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Talking Heads

Great Britain · Arts / Drama. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1987

Alan Bennett1987

Arts / Drama

Talking Heads, a series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992. A sextet of poignantly comic pieces, each depicting several stages in the characters decline from an initial state of denial or ignorance of their predicament, through a slow realisation of the hopelessness of their situation, progressing to a bleak or ambiguous conclusion

Names involved

Alan Bennett

Provenance

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