Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner to collaborate on new play about the NHS

The playwright, a passionate supporter of the health service, has set Allelujah! in a beleaguered Pennines hospital

Alan Bennett is to explore life in a Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure in a new play that will be directed by Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre.

The production, entitled Allejujah!, is the 10th collaboration between the writer and the director and will be staged this summer at the Bridge theatre in London. It is produced by the London Theatre Company, which Hytner co-founded, after leaving the National Theatre, with the National’s former executive director Nick Starr.

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