A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads 1

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads 1

Her Big Chance & A Cream Cracker Under the Settee
★★★★☆ Poignant

This pair of quietly devastating dramatic monologues from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series, while written (and firmly rooted) in the 1980s, still stand up as tragicomic meditations on loneliness.

Aug 15 2026 | By More
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