Allelujah! review " Alan Bennett's hospital drama is full of quiet anger
The Bridge theatre, LondonPatients' singalongs and Bennett's stinging wit light up a state-of-the-nation play set on a geriatric ward Hospitals make good theatre. Shortly after Alan Bennett made his playwriting debut in 1968 with Forty Years On, Peter Nichols wrote The National Health in which a crumbling Victorian gothic ward became a metaphor for contemporary Britain. Now Bennett echoes Nichols' device, in a play f…