Alan Bennett`s acclaimed play `The Habit of Art`, directed by Nicholas Hytner, stars Richard Griffiths and Alex Jennings. For his new opera `Death in Venice`, Benjamin Britten seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in 25 years, they are observed and interrupted by their future biographer and a young man from the bus station. Bennett`s play reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration and on persisting when all passion is spent ultimately on the habit of art.
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