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... A Cream Cracker under the Settee 'Cream Cracker under the Settee', written by Alan Bennett comes from a series of 1980s monologues called 'Talking Heads'. It was written for television so that the actors could speak directly to the camera giving the monologues a realistic feel. In this essay I will explore the way Doris and Wilfred's relationship and character is presented and commenting on the monologue as a dramatic device. I will also analyze they unique way each reacted to events and people during their life together. In 'Cream Cracker under the Settee' Dora Bryan takes the role of Doris. Obsessive about cleaning, Doris has tidied her husband into the grave and ignored the warnings of her social services daily with tragic results! The play opens in the morning. Doris "a women of seventy five who has a pacemaker and dizzy spells", has (disobeying her career Zulema) been
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