When Miss Shephard first moved her van onto the playwright, Alan Bennett’s drive. Little did he know she would stay there for 15 years. Alan’s whimsical and factual autobiographical play about his neighbour presents a warm-hearted and wittily insightful take on the whole issue of homelessness. First presented at The Queen’s Theatre in the West End in 1999 it went on to become a hugely successful British movie in 2016 with Maggie Smith.