There’s nowhere to hide
SOME bright news: the BBC is going to film new productions of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. What is more, two fresh pieces are being added to the original 10 monologues and the impressively starry list of performers includes Jodie Comer, Tamsin Greig, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton and Harriet Walter. As Bennett fans know, these are wistfully tragicomic pieces that explore various forms of quiet desperation, and that work equally as memorably on stage as they do on TV.
‘Undistracted by decor or directorial ingenuity, we focus on the magnetism of the performer’
In theory, theWilliam Goldman tells a wonderful story about a customer coming out of Judy Garland’s one-woman show and saying to his companion: ‘But is it theatre?’ The companion replies: ‘It had better be, because it sure as hell ain’t singing.’
