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At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic. Exciting and innovative South African exciting talent, Fiona Ramsay and Janna Ramos-Violante star, accompanied on piano by Tony Bentel and keenly directed by Vanessa Cooke. This is a fresh new look at some of Alan Bennett’s pieces, which are compelling, confessional and crackling with wit. The audience is given access to people’s inner lives exploring recurring themes of self-deception and loneliness gently tempered with brilliant and searing humour. A must see! 
TALKING HEADS may have lodged in the memory as entertaining exercises on funny and favourite themes, however it is disquieting, on re-acquaintance, to find them unsparing self-interrogations close to the theatre of the absurd.
What one notices most of all is the sense that Bennett’s characters are shoring their resources against unthinkable alternatives and while they are generously humorous are also acute mini-tragedies.
Bennett explores the world of interiors, he takes into the minds of his characters and almost makes you stop breathing: 
Janna Ramos-Violante plays Lesley, is an aspiring actress, who, after a series of unpromising extra roles on television, finds what she believes to be her big break as the adventurous Travis in a new film! It is not clear to what extent Lesley understands that she is appearing in a soft porn film.
Fiona Ramsay plays Rosemary - a lonely woman whose husband is intent on moving them both to Marbella in Spain.  A keen gardener, who loves the optimism of plants and growth finds solace for her isolation by tending a neighbour’s garden after her neighbor is arrested.