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Ben & Wystan

Alan Bennett’s THE HABIT OF ART, April 22, 2010 National Theatre, London—via simulcast at NYU Is squalid solitude prerequisite to habitual art? A case can be made, no doubt. Yet it was strange to see Auden portrayed so slobbering, forgetful, corpulent—a man in a barely buttonable cardigan, wobbling with fat and pissing into his kitchen […]