What’s On: Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters & A Woman of No Importance (Hummingbird Theatre Company)


Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters & A Woman of No Importance

30 November – 2 December 2023

Latvian Hall, Woolloongabba


Talking Heads is a series of dramatic, kitchen-table monologues written for BBC television by British playwright Alan Bennett. These intimate monologues cover a variety of subjects and explore recurring themes, such as death, illness, guilt and isolation, often through the use of dark humour and intelligent wit.

A Lady of Letters
Starring Julia Johnson
Miss Ruddock is a working-class single woman who is not afraid to speak, or rather write, her mind: she writes letters to her MP, the police, the chemist – everyone she can, to remedy the social ills she sees around her. After one too many accusations of misconduct from Miss Ruddock’s pen, she faces serious risk of imprisonment.

A Woman of No Importance
Starring Amanda McErlean
Miss Schofield, clerical worker and self-described linchpin of her office, finds that when her strict regime is disrupted, her world crumbles around her. Her health deteriorates and she is rapidly spirited away to hospital, where she reconstructs her office routine, appropriating doctors, other hospital staff, and patients as replacements for her co-workers.


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