28 February 2013
A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It’s a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world… a saleroom here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover". People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution...
Frances de la Tour is a joy to watch, lording it up as she struts around the huge stage. This new Alan Bennett play is a wonderfully observed piece of comedy theatre. Touching, relevant and funny, funny, funny - a great vehicle for Lady de la Tour to boom out her lines with 'that voice'... A giggle-tastic night out!
National Theatre Live - People will be broadcast to cinemas across the UK and around the world on Thursday 21 March 2013.
