Office Suite is not Alan Bennett at his best. This double-bill of comedies about the workplace does not have the power of his far superior piece Talking Heads.

But Bennett not at his best can still be pretty good fare and these two plays have some fine moments as they look at us and how we behave.

They were originally written for television in the Seventies and, although the observations on human behaviour and the silly things we do are still sharp, there is a somewhat dated feel about them.

Both have the air of being great short sketches which have been stretched a little too much.

The best of the two is A Visit From Miss Prothero, a two-hander for Edward Hardwicke and Lesley Joseph.

Hardwicke plays Arthur Dodsworth, who is enjoying retirement after 30 years working as a senior manager. He is napping quietly at home when his former colleague Miss Prothero calls.

Here, Lesley Joseph has entirely thrown off her image of Dorian in Birds Of A Feather.

Gone are the elegant nails, make-up and glamour, she has become the hideous Edna from Emmerdale, a dour, uptight and extremely prim Yorkshire spinster with a tremendous down on men.

Poor old Dodsworth. He tells her he is enjoying his retirement with bowls, pottery classes and a new interest in Cordon Bleu cookery.

She is determined to bring the conversation around to changes in his old workplace.

Within an hour, she has totally destroyed his calm by showing how his former protg has revolutionised his way of working to make it much more efficient.

It soon becomes clear the couple's working relationship was not pleasant and Hardwicke has some excellent lines to show his frustrations well.

Joseph, too, is good to watch but there is something about the timing between the two that is just a little off. Sometimes the necessary uncomfortable pauses go on for too long.

The second play, Green Forms, is basically a two-hander for Debra Penny and Mary Cunningham as Doreen and Doris, long-time colleagues who realise they might being made redundant.

Once again, the observations on life are splendidly done by Bennett.

He has a knack of catching a wry and mixed way of conversation.

As an exercise in Bennett nostalgia, both plays are reasonable but they have been greatly overshadowed by what he has written since.

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