11 October - Allelujah!

 

In October we will be meeting on the 2nd Wednesday of the month and, because of the current interest in the film, read Allelujah! by Alan Bennett.

We read this play in 2019!  And it is incredibly hard to do as there are so many roles. So we'll just have to read it with great good humour and tolerance!  Everyone will need to keep on their toes!

Here's my information from 2019:

Allelujah! is Alan Bennett's new play which opened in London last year.  Unfortunately it has a cast of thousands (well, 25) which has made it difficult to prepare for the group.  Therefore, I hope you'll bear with me!

Allelujah! by Alan Bennett

Allelujah! is an NHS drama set in a friendly hospital in rural Yorkshire. Colin, an ambitious local boy turned metropolitan yuppie, has arrived from London to visit his sick father and he takes the opportunity to assess the efficiency of the hospital on behalf of his bosses at the health department in Whitehall. Meanwhile, a TV crew has found evidence that a staff member is murdering elderly patients to create vacant beds for new arrivals. 

In reality Allelujah! is a musical and not strictly politically accurate: the latter I'm going to ignore and the former will also be mentioned but we will not be singing and I will not be choreographing dance routines!