New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeAlan Bennett's TV monologues may have lodged in the memory as entertaining exercises on favourite themes (star turns for Thora Hird, repressed bachelors and so forth). It's disquieting, on reacquaintance, to find them to be unsparing self-interrogations close to the theatre of the absurd.There's a strong autobiographical element here: Bennett recalls an aunt who used to prattle …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45PM on January 30, 2013