The Lady In the Van

Well it's Saturday Evening and here I am at the Theatre Royal in Bath.

For me it's my first time here and one that I had been quite looking forward to.The play was very funny

Overview:

When a decrepit Bedford van grinds to a halt opposite Alan Bennett’s house in Camden Town, little does the writer suspect that its next parking place will be his own garden where its evi lsmelling occupant is to remain for a further fifteen years. The genuinely eccentric Miss Shepherd is a trained concert pianist, may have been a nun and would be Prime Minister, and is described by the author as “a bigoted, blinkered, cantankerous, devious, unforgiving, self-centred, rank, rude, car-mad cow”. Forced by her complaints to turn down his music, recharge her van’s flat battery and become her carer, Alan Bennett uses his vivid observations to create a wonderfully funny play.