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Jessica Duchen
Wednesday 28th October 2009
Auden, Britten and Alan Bennett
Blimey - Alan Bennett has written a new play about the relationship of WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It's called The Habit of Art and opens at the Lyttleton on 5 November. It centres, apparently, on a meeting between the two late in their lives, an encounter that never actually happened - but Bennett is such a brilliant writer than I am sure we will forgive him that. Richard Griffiths plays Auden.
Richard Morrison has an article in today's Times about it.
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About Jessica Duchen
Jessica Duchen is a music journalist and the author of four novels, two biographies and several stage works. She writes regularly for The Independent and BBC Music Magazine. Her latest novel, Songs of Triumphant Love, is published by Hodder.
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