Cream Cracker

... Look at the different dramatic techniques which Bennett uses in order to build up sympathy for Doris Cream cracker under the settee is another one of Alan Bennett's famous monologues known collectively as talking heads. These monologues feature everyday people living ordinary, monotonous lives. His characters usually undergo some kind of crisis or life episode where they learn something. Cream cracker under the settee was first televised in 1988. Throughout the play Bennett uses a variety of techniques to evoke a lot of sympathy for Doris, who is the main character in Cream Cracker. In the monologue there is only one actor that is Doris. This means the audience have to have an active imagination; she is an artless narrator and tells the truth as she sees. Because it is a single character, we see her just on her own; this shows the audience her isolation and evokes sympathy for

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