Alan Bennett’s double bill of two cynically affectionate memory plays- HYMN and COCKTAIL STICKS - with music by George Fenton. In a recording studio, Alan Bennett (played by the phenomenal Reece Dinsdale) and the Ligeti Quartet record a rich and textured music-memoir of Alan’s lost childhood, before he is whooshed back in time to face the parents and the Leeds, long lost, who so defined him.

HYMN

Reece Dinsdale as Alan Bennett, The Ligeti Quartet, Kate Antony and Simon Roberts

COCKTAIL STICKS

John Arthur (Dad), Marjorie Yates (Mam), Reece Dinsdale (Alan Bennett), Kate Antony and Simon Roberts

Director Mark Rosenblatt

Musical Direction Tom Green

Set Amanda Stoodley

Sound Adrienne Quartley

Lighting Charles Balfour

Courtyard Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, 2014

Photography Antony Crolla