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Starring:
Bally Gill, Darren Charman, David Bradley, Eileen Davies, Gerard Horan, Jesse Akele, Jessica Baglow, Judi Dench, Paul Butterworth, Ray Burnet
Summary:
The story of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure.
The Telegraph
Sep 17, 2022
Sep 17, 2022
The Guardian
Sep 17, 2022
Sep 17, 2022
It didactically calls out governmental hypocrisy while exposing corrupt elements and inefficiencies within the precious institution itself. It hedges its bets politically between nostalgic keening for a kinder, fairer Britain of old and advocating for a top-down socialist makeover. It wavers tonally between cozy comedy and head-on polemic.
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The Playlist
Sep 17, 2022
Sep 17, 2022
Mar 16, 2023
This take on Alan Bennett’s pre-pandemic play, a love letter to the NHS set on a geriatric ward in Wakefield’s beloved-but-threatened Bethlehem Hospital (‘The Beth’), ticks along amiably enough for an hour or so. Then, like a hand grenade in a tombola, a harrowing third-act twist detonates beneath it and narrative and tonal destruction ensues.
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