A Cream cracker under the settee.

... "A Cream cracker under the settee" wrote by Alan Bennett. Written for television a television script, a cream cracker under the settee is one of six commissioned by the BBC in 1987. Collectively they were called "talking Heads". Each of the plays unfolds the story of one central character by using their spoken thoughts. Bennet explores various themes in the plays, each monologue is the story of the events that change a person's life, some are tragic, some are humorous, all explore themes which skilfully use dramatic devices to keep and maintain the audience's interest to think about and respond to when they watch the plays. A dramatic monologue is a play which there is only one performer. The dramatic monologue was poetic form perfected and exploited by Robert Browning although earlier poems exhibited many of its characteristics. It resembles the soliloquy where a character in a play utters his thoughts

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