The Lady in the Van
- By:
- Alan Bennett
- Management:
- Hull Truck Theatre, in association with Richard Jordan Productions
- Cast:
- Nichola McAuliffe, Sean McKenzie, Paul Kemp, Fenella Norman, Dale Rapley, Karen Traynor, Ged McKenna, Sophie Robinson
- Director:
- Sarah Esdaile
- Design:
- Ben Stones
- Lighting:
- Chris Davey
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Hull Truck's touring revival of Alan Bennett's play is a beautifully performed and directed piece of theatre. It charts the relationship between the playwright and an elderly woman living in a van in his garden in Camden Town. Combining painful observation and humour, Bennett's piece is as much a critical self-portrait as anything else... April 13, 2012
When Miss Shepherd, a cantankerous old woman, pitched up near Alan Bennett's home, his response was guarded. Her decrepit van - reeking of onions and worse - was an eyesore, but he was more concerned about her safety, given the nightly attentions of the local yobs... April 13, 2011
Run sheet
- Theatre Royal Brighton
- April 11-14
- Regent Stoke-on-Trent
- April 17-21
- Waterside Aylesbury
- April 24-28
- Arts Cambridge
- May 1- 5
- Grand Blackpool
- May 15-19
- Curve Leicester
- May 22-26
- Festival Malvern
- May 29-June 2
- Lyceum Sheffield
- June 6- 9
- New Cardiff
- June 12-16
- Richmond Theatre Richmond-upon-Thames
- June 19-23
- Theatre Royal Bath
- June 25-30
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