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Jan 1, 2001 · Bennett recounts Miss Shepherd's bizarre escapades in his inimitable style, from her letter to the Argentinean Embassy at the height of the Falklands War, to her attempts to stand for Parliament and wangle an electric wheelchair out of the Social Services.
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- Care as A Relationship
- Care as The Encounter with The Other
- Conclusion
Within the mostly individualistic, market-driven, neoliberal societies of the Western world, debates around care create a countermodel of ethics and also a political discourse that affects both private and public spheres. As a matter of fact, as Virginia Held (2006) maintains, the understanding of care as an ethical model involves elaborating “valu...
In an article published in Age, Culture and Humanities, Professor Rüdiger Kunow (2015) recognizes the “highly unstable” meaning of the term care. However, he argues that it “always recognizes a relationship that is at once dialogical andasymmetrical” insofar as there is a person who “gives care” while another one “receives care, and oftentimes depe...
Having considered the peculiar asymmetry in Bennett and Miss Shepherd’s relationship, we return to Kunow’s definition of care in order to look at its dialogical dimension. Even though, as reflected in the short story and film, the actual dialogue between the two characters may seem scarce and does not apparently lead to significant changes in the p...
In their last conversation the evening before Miss Shepherd is found dead in her van, and as depicted in the film, Miss Shepherd and Mr Bennett hold hands for the first time. While doing so, both characters look at each other in silence, signifying with their gaze what they fail to express in words: through the filter of the actors’ craft and Mr Hy...
- Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Núria Casado-Gual
- 2020
Oct 29, 2015 · In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord. And yet she lived there for fifteen years.
The Lady in the Van is a touching and funny dramedy that presents insights into kindness, compassion, old age, loneliness, creativity, and community. Perhaps the most universal theme is the film's vivid depiction of the challenges of dealing with difficult people.
May 7, 2015 · In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite...
- Alan Bennett
- Profile, 2015
- 184765357X, 9781847653574
An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. Then a kind homeowner invites her to move her van into his garden – where she stays for the next fifteen years.
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Maggie Smith stars in this BBC radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's highly acclaimed autobiographical stage play. An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on.
