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Saving the best for last, Talking Heads brings the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Alan Bennett season to a close.
Staging three of the monologues that were written in 1988 for the BBC, the actors have a tough challenge competing with roles made famous by Bennett, Maggie Smith and Patricia Routledge.
It’s to the credit of the cast that they make the roles their own and to director James Brining too for selecting pieces that have recurring themes such as death’s shadow, isolation and fear that the characters will be confronted with unimaginable alternatives if their ordinary, stagnating lives are challenged.
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