The Madness of George III
April 13
June 12, 2011
in CST's Courtyard Theater
by Alan Bennett
directed by Penny Metropulos
April 13
June 12, 2011
in CST's Courtyard Theater
by Alan Bennett
directed by Penny Metropulos
Playwright
Alan Bennett jokes that as a child he was deprived of the deprivation that usually prepares a writer for his craft, since his family was normal and his parents were happy together. Alan Bennett was born in 1934 and grew up in a modest home in Leeds, a city in Yorkshire, in the north of England. His father was a butcher. Alan went to public schools and was given a scholarship to Exeter College Oxford, where in 1957 he earned a degree in history. Read more.