Getting On

Overview

A full cast BBC production of the much-loved play by the award-winning Alan Bennett.A British Labour M.P., ten years into his second marriage, feels tethered in a time of change. He is distrustful on the one hand of the "mawkish mentality" of the young and, on the other, of the encroaching life of the middle aged who can look forward to nothing more than the fairly imminent end of a not so very interesting road.Starring Keith Barron, Emily Richard, David Rintoul, Charles Simpson, Margaret Courtenay, Ian Targett, Pauline Letts & Susan Sheridan.

Author Biography

Alan Bennett's television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) and an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the South Bank Award.