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The indominable Miss Shepherd pulls into the Robin Hood Theatre this week with the true-life story of The Lady In The Van. The latest offering by Robin Hood Theatre Company runs at the Averham theatre until Saturday. It is the true story of how a seemingly vagrant woman moved on to the driveway of famous playwright Alan Bennett for three months in 1974 and ended up staying for 15 years! This play, by Alan Bennett, gradually reveals more about the mysterious past of Miss Shepherd – if that is her real name – and the relationship between her and Bennett, the other neighbours, and authority figur…

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