How does Alan Bennett create the character of Miss Fozzard and tell her story? The video, "Talking Heads Two" was made in 1998. It is a collection of six dramatic monologues

... How does Alan Bennett create the character of Miss Fozzard and tell her story? The video, "Talking Heads Two" was made in 1998. It is a collection of six dramatic monologues by various different actors, each one telling their own story. Bennett wrote a series of monologues in 1988 for BBC 2 at a time when they were having financial difficulties. Monologues were chosen as they only required a few actors and cameramen. They were successful and Bennett decided to write a second series of monologues, the one which I am going to study is called "Miss Fozzard finds her feet" and I will be discussing how Alan Bennett creates her character and how her story is told. The monologues were written for, and shown on television. The use of the "talking head" as a dramatic device is effective as the audience sees the expression on the actors face and then feels

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