"One character talking to a camera for half an hour, Do you call that drama?" How does Alan Bennet try to maintain the audience's interest in his 'Talking Heads'?

... "One character talking to a camera for half an hour, Do you call that drama?" How does Alan Bennet try to maintain the audience's interest in his 'Talking Heads'? In A Lady of Letters, Patricia Routledge plays the part of Irene Ruddock, who is a very lonely woman that has an obsession with writing letters to everyone to complain about the smallest of things. She lives by herself, and has done since her mother died. A Lady of Letters is a drama because it includes different amounts of lighting at certain points of the video. Routledge also acts when she is speaking to the camera, for example she gets very upset at some points e.g. when she talks about when the police told her the little boy over the road had died of leukaemia. She also expresses herself well by her actions. At first Irene seems like a very highly classed woman,

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