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Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power." Beat the Devil will kick off a series of other one-person plays to be performed in repertory at the Bridge, including Alan Bennett's Talking[...]

Talking Heads was a BBC TV series written by Alan Bennett that won every award going and underlined his reputation as a national treasure A series of monologues, mostly by leading actors of the day, and primarily women, that revealed lives that were fun, tragic, poignant, transgressive, but all very human The first monologue that[...]