Event

The Lady in the Van

Saturday, May 28 at 7 pm, we are pleased to screen the critically acclaimed "The Lady in the Van", starring the incomparable Maggie Smith and directed by Alan Bennett.

"The Lady in the Van"tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home. She stayed there for 15 years.

As the story develops Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of the pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.

Starring Academy Award Winner Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent and featuring Alan Bennet himself as Alex Jennings, "The Lady in the Van" is rated PG-13 and has a run time of 1 hour and 44 minutes.

Tickets are $7.00 general admission and available online and at the theater box office a half hour prior to screen time.