The Lady in the Van, written by playwright Alan Bennett, started out as a true story, which made it into a book and now a play.

"Alan Bennett has a very unusual neighbour. Parked at the bottom of his garden is a van. With a lady in it.

Miss Shepherd is a curious and enigmatic lady. Alan knows very little about her. She used to drive ambulances in the war, might have been a nun, sells pencils and pamphlets and has an unexplained aversion to piano music.

But somehow she lives in the playwright's garden and has done for years."

The play features the role of Alan Bennett (the narrator) as well as another Alan Bennett (one of the protagonists) and was adapted for the stage by Hull Truck Theatre.