Allelujah!

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

The script includes an introduction by Alan Bennett

Allelujah! premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, July 2018

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