Lady in the Van

Genre: Comedy <p> Characters: 9 males 5 females <p> Scenery: Various sets <p> 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. <p> 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 <p> Hilarious...A consistently enjoyable entertainment. -The New York Times <p> Without doubt the best new play of the year. -Daily Telegraph <p> 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 </p>