St Ann's Hospital, and the filming of Alan Bennett's play 'Allelujah'

In a wide-ranging article in The Guardian by its film editor Catherine Shoard she begins with the hospital's personal and local significance and the imminent loss of its character, including some striking pictures of former patients' names incised in the soft red bricks, hopefully to be preserved.

She visited the set during filming and there are conversations with some of the cast (Judi Dench, Jennifer Saunders) and the film's director Richard Eyre. The film is released in March, and also features Derek Jacobi and Russell Tovey among others.

The play is set in a run-down geriatric ward, and the filming of it in 2021 during Covid and the effect on the NHS informs the conversations.

It's at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/10/we-fetishised-being-yo...