Film
National Theatre Encore: Allelujah!
- Director
- Nicholas Hytner
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 166 mins
The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.
Alan Bennett‘s tenth collaboration with director Nicholas Hytner was recorded during the play’s limited run at London’s Bridge Theatre. It’s “a rousing chorus line for the NHS”, enthuses The Observer.
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