BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Alan Bennett is still on top form at the age of 83 in new play Allelujah!

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Alan Bennett has a surprise for those who thought he’d written his last work for the stage: he’s penned a new play.

‘His response to old age is to go on writing plays — that’s a pretty good response,’ said director Nicholas Hytner of his most frequent collaborator.

The 83-year-old dramatist has written Allelujah!, set in the Dusty Springfield geriatric ward of a local hospital on the edge of the Pennines in West Yorkshire.

Hytner called Allelujah! ‘very funny, very touching, and quite alarming’.

f0dc83c84878ea3fdc60b7c5372c4c17 BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Alan Bennett is still on top form at the age of 83 in new play Allelujah!

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