Monday, 14 October 2024

Allelujah!


Allelujah!, Bridge Theatre, 2018. 

Cast: Jacqueline Chan, Jacqueline Clarke, Patricia England, Julia Foster, Colin Haugh, Anna Lindup, Louis Mahoney, Jeff Rawle, Cleo Sylvestre, Gwen Taylor, Sue Wallace, Simon Williams, Sacha Dhawan, Peter Forbes, Manish Gandhi, Richie Hart, Nicola Hughes, Gary Wood, Samuel Barnett, Sam Bond, Rosie Ede, Nadine Higgin, David Moorst, Duncan Wisbey.

Writer: Alan Bennett
Director: Nicholas Hytner

Not Alan's best work and it would be a shame if this was his swansong, which it could be as there have been no new plays in the following six years. One friend I was with found it difficult and left at the interval. The film was maybe slightly better but the whole thing was perhaps well intentioned but misguided.


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