Alan Bennett (Playright) first appeared on the stage in the 1960’s as one of the authors and performers of the revue Beyond the Fringe. His stage plays include Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus, The Old Country, Enjoy and Kafka’s Dick and he has written many television plays, notably A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Woman of No Importance and the series of monologues Talking Heads. An adaptation of his television play An Englishman Abroad was pair with A Question of Attribution in the double bill Single Spies, first produced at the National Theatre in 1988. This was followed in 1990 by his adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and in 1991 by The Madness of George III, both produced at the National Theatre. His stage version of The Lady in the Van was seen in the West End in 1999. The History Boys is winner of the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the South Bank Award and TONY Award for Best Play 2006.