A Woman of No Importance. (1982)

Essential Viewing

UK

Short Television Film

Series Title: Objects of Affection (1982)

Director: Giles Foster

Writer: Alan Bennett

Cinematographer: Duncan Brown

Composer: George Fenton

Cast: Patricia Routledge

As we move from waiting room to living room to hospital bed, a lonely middle-aged woman with a love for office gossip delivers several monologues, which ostensibly update us about her ailing health, but are dominated more by the seemingly trivial details her everyday life and her observations of those around her, in this painfully funny, wincingly perceptive, and devastatingly moving one woman play; a groundbreaking masterpiece. Iain.Stott