Talking Heads
A Lady of Letter by Alan Bennett
Miss Ruddock writes letters – not, unfortunately, social communications filled with
harmless news, but letters of complaint, comment and occasionally, officious praise
to various businesses and government departments. She complains about the lack
of care she assumes the child living opposite is receiving and ends up in prison.
There, ironically, Miss Ruddock finds freedom and is, for possibly the first time,
happy.
Her Big Chance by Alan Bennett
Meet Lesley, an actress. She has just completed a video (‘targeted chiefly on West
Germany’) in which she plays Travis, a career girl who enjoys life, spends a
remarkable amount of time topless and shoots a man with a harpoon gun.
A Chip in the Sugar by Alan Bennett
Graham, a middle-aged bachelor, emotionally unintelligent and chronically
dependent on his mother, finds life difficult enough at the best of times. When Mother
meets an old flame and seems set to marry him, Graham’s old insecurities rear their
ugly heads.