Produced By: Certain Age
The Lady in the Van
- Genre:
- Drama
- Opens:
- 25 Oct 2025
- Times:
- 25 Oct, 14:30
25 Oct, 19:30
Tickets no longer available.
Alan Bennett writes, “After Miss Shepherd drove her van into my garden in 1974 friends used to ask me if I was planning to write a play about her. I wasn’t, but twenty-five years later I have.”
In The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett draws on his notebooks and diaries to tell the story of an extraordinary woman who moved her van into his garden. She was always unpredictable and erratic. She came to stay for “a month or two” or “three months at the outside” – and she remained there for fifteen years.
The play was first performed in 1999 and was described by The Daily Telegraph as, “without doubt, the best new play of the year.”
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