Allelujah! (Limited Edition)

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett’s hospital drama, which opened at the Bridge Theatre in London in 2018, in a beautiful limited edition.

1 in stock

£100.00
Format
Hardback
ISBN
9780571350650
Date Published
16.08.2018
Delivery
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Summary

A beautiful edition of Alan Bennett’s warm, deeply moving hospital drama, one of only 100 copies printed for sale, fine-bound and signed by the author.

What were you in life?
In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster.

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 NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients, a documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward. Meanwhile, the old people’s choir, in readiness for next week’s concert, is in full swing, augmented by the arrival of Mrs Maudsley, aka Pudsey Nightingale.

Alan Bennett’s Allelujah! opened at the Bridge Theatre, London, in July 2018.

With an introduction by Alan Bennett.

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Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and…

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