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Keeping on keeping on
\"[This text] contains [Alan] Bennett's diaries from 2005 to 2015, with everything from his much celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews, reflecting on a decade that saw four major theater premieres and the films of 'The History Boys' and 'The Lady in the Van'\"--Amazon.com.
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From cradle to grave
Charming and witty, but not without teeth, the opening of Alan Bennett's first play in 6 years and his tenth collaboration with director Nicholas Hytner will be for many a source of celebration. Sliding pastel-shaded panels evocatively create careworn National Health Service (NHS) wards and corridors. Granted the play's closing speech, his words are ones of quiet despair with the entreaty to “open your arms before it's too late”.
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House arrest : pandemic diaries
4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not the thin end of a precautionary wedge lest Her Majesty end up swathed in protective get-up such as is worn at the average crime scene. 20 March. With Rupert now working from home my life is much easier, as I get regular cups of tea and a lovely hot lunch. A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett. The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and encounters on the local park bench.
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Celebration, Mexican Lily, and Sayolita Life by Paul Alan Bennett
Recognizing the contribution art has had in the Mayo Clinic environment since the original Mayo Clinic Building was finished in 1914, Mayo Clinic Proceedings features some of the numerous works of art displayed throughout the buildings and grounds on Mayo Clinic campuses as interpreted by the author.
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Born to run?
Political drama is Hare's thing; in 1993 The Absence of War considered Labour's unsuccessful 1992 general election campaign. A National Health Service (NHS) doctor working in Corby hospital, she discovers it‘s about to close as part of a “rationalisation” initiative. [...]I'm Not Running is less immediately relevant than it otherwise might be.
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Recovering Franz Kafka's Asbestos Factory
This article recalls Franz Kafka's part ownership of the asbestos factory, Prague Asbestwerke Hermann & Co. to introduce two forms of literary recovery, exemplified by Alan Bennett's 1985 television play, The Insurance Man, and James Kelman's 1994 novel, How late it was, how late. Both works develop divergent politicized styles, based on their respective readings of Kafka's life and work. Rather than simply recuperating Kafka from this biographeme or damning him for it, they find the aesthetic means to represent the asbestos problem in the combination of Kafka's biography and writing, either by addressing the long tail of asbestos exposure or by focussing on the interiority of asbestos victims. Brought together, these approaches turn the recovery of Kafka's asbestos factory into a case for thinking about precarity, activism, compensation, and justice.
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Tian Han's Salomé Complex and The Discourses of Sentiment in Hurricane: The Life of Tian Han
Unlike the usual form of main melody biographical plays, Tian Qinxin's Hurricane is a postmodern psychobiography, which focuses on Tian Han's inner life and romantic relationships through a pastiche of monologues, dialogues, choruses, and fragmented plays-within-a-play. Employing Tian Han's Salome complex as a controlling narrative, it presents two significant turns in his life under the influence of \"Salomean\" women. In Tian Qinxin's rendering, Tian Han's Salome complex comes to encompass not only romantic love but also patriotic passion. By both contextualizing and correlating Tian Han's romantic love and patriotic love through different discourses of sentiment, Hurricane conveys the main melody message via an unusually artistic form, while contributing to the canonization of Tian Han in contemporary China.
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Narrative Features in The Lady in the Van
The Lady in the Van is about the odd friendship between Bennett, a writer, and Miss Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman. This paper intends to discuss the narrative features of the film version from David Bordwell’s three dimensions (narration, plot structure and story world) of film narrative. The film presents us with a unique point of view, a seemingly disjointed but implicitly connected plot structure, and a story world in which the characters have their own goals to achieve. Bennett and Miss Shepherd have got to know each other better in fifteen years. Miss Shepherd is Bennett’s guide in life, teaching him how to write and how to get along with his mother.
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