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’.