People
- Full Length Play, Comedy
- 8M, 5F
- ISBN: 9780571309801
A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world... a saleroom here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
After centuries a traditional estate lies in a state of disrepair; desperately requiring financing to keep the once grand residence restored and maintained. Lady Dorothy, our world-weary, beleaguered central character, would rather sell off the contents of the house or even allow explicit films to shoot at the residence in order to save the property from the grips of the National Trust. However her rather more proper sister wholeheartedly disagrees.
This central conflict enables Bennett to examine philosophical and ethical dilemmas of restoration, in an age of rampant public consumption, with hilarious and touching results.
REVIEWS:
"...it confirms Bennett's peculiar gift for blending the satiric and the elegiac."
The Guardian
"At 78, Alan Bennet has lost little of his mischievous wit and sense of the ridiculous."
The Telegraph
Characters
- Casting: 8M, 5F
- Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast
Available Material
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People Script
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People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution. |
$24.95 |
