The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett performed live at the National Theatre 2010
run time for the play 2 hrs 9 mins
IMDb tt1641833/
Presented in two parts at interval
An introduction and featurette on
Auden and Britten are included
Summary from IMDb
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in
Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.
cast and creative
directed for the stage Nicholas Hynter
directed for the screen by Robin Lough
presenter Emma Freud
Cast
Fitz Richard Griffiths
Henry Alex Jennings
Donald Adrian Scarborough
Tim Stephen Wight
Brian Philip Childs
Neil Elliot Levy
Kay Frances de la Tour
George John Heffernan
Joan Barbara Kirby
Matt Danny Burns
complete cast and crew in the credit roll
My notes
"Take a pew."
Alan Bennett used that phrase as the introduction to his monologue as vicar for a sermon in Beyond The Fringe (1961). You can see that in this file group.
This is taken from a rebroadcast of "The Habit Of Art" which was from the first season
of National Theatre Live-to-theatre streaming broadcasts in 2010. This capture is originally in 16:9 ratio (to fit your television screen as the DVDs used to say.) What is lost is a bit of the hard coded Chinese and English subtitles at the two edges.
It cannot be corrected.
The style of The Habit Of Art as a play within a play on a set constructed inside
a bare proscenium stage is reminiscent of Pirandello and Brecht as well. But that aside,
Alan Bennett shows are first and foremost about language even though there are plenty
of sight gags in "The Habit Of Art," "The Madness Of George III" and "People." All these are
in this torrent collection. "The Habit of Art" was extracted from a large play group now
gone extinct. Even So, I have the source given in the NFO file which is in the folder with
the play.
The NFO (info File) folder contains the rest of my torrent file shares. For access to
the NFO file in the folder, get Notepad++. Notepad++ also will open SRT files.
notes written August 24th, 2021
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