🎙️ Forty Years On — The Play That Stages a Nation’s Memory
“The past is never quite what it was—and sometimes it takes a school play to prove it.”
Tonight on Chesterton Radio, we step into the peculiar world of Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On—a play that begins with a harmless end-of-term pageant and ends somewhere far deeper: in the uneasy territory between memory and truth.
Set within the walls of Albion House, a traditional English public school, the play unfolds as a “play within a play”—boys reenacting the recent past, masters looking on, and a headmaster preparing to exit the stage of history. But as the scenes progress, something begins to slip…
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