Award-winning Actor Mark Beer and Georgie Rodgers have joined forces to present a special performance of two of Alan Bennett’s much-loved monologues from the critically acclaimed Talking Heads series.

In A chip in the Sugar, mild, middle-aged Graham Whittaker (Mark Beer) finds life becoming complicated as his mother, with whom he still lives, reunites with an old flame named Frank Turnbull. What then unfolds is a wonderful story filled with comedy, real-life characters whilst sensitively exploring the issue of mental health.

Her big chance tells the story of Lesley (Georgie Rodgers), an actress. She has just completed a video ('targeted chiefly on West Germany') in which she plays Travis, a career girl who enjoys life, spends a remarkable amount of time topless and shoots a man with a harpoon gun. She tells all, blind to the sinister undertones of her story as well as to her own self-delusions and gullibility.

Originally filmed for BBC Television, both pieces are from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series which sealed his reputation as the master of observation. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic.