成人B站 SCREENS wraps up its spring season with a new comedy by Alan Bennett. Allelujah! will screen on Friday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of East Central University鈥檚 Bill S. Cole University Center.
The show is open to the public and the cost is $10 for community members. 成人B站 students receive free admission, sponsored by 成人B站 SCREENS.
Allelujah! is a hilarious, satirical drama centered on a small hospital at risk of closure due to budget constraints. A documentary crew helps the hospital fight for survival by following the daily struggles at the hospital. Bennett, who is 84 years old, focuses the play on the geriatric ward and the 鈥渙ld people鈥檚 choir.鈥� The play is 鈥渟ubversively political鈥� (The Guardian) but also 鈥渓eaves you bobbing on a wave of happiness鈥� (Independent).
The characters each have their own method for keeping the hospital open. They include Samuel Barnett as Colin, a government consultant who argues 鈥淭he state should not be seen to work. If the state is seen to work, we shall never be rid of it.鈥� Deborah Findlay, as Sister Gilchrist, takes a more direct approach to making more hospital beds available. Sacha Dhawan plays an immigrant doctor with genuine concern for the patients鈥� well-being, but he is facing his own crisis as the end of his student visa puts him at risk for deportation.
The runtime is two hours and 30 minutes and includes an interval, when 成人B站 SCREENS will serve free ice cream to audience members. The production has a BBFC rating of 鈥�15,鈥� as the play contains strong language. NT Live is the National Theatre's groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas around the world.
The next 成人B站 SCREENS event on Wednesday, July 3,at 6:30 pm will be 鈥淭he Madness of George III,鈥� also written by Bennett.
To learn more about 成人B站 SCREENS, like the 成人B站 SCREENS Facebook page. For more information about the Royal National Theatre in Great Britain and the NT Live screenings, visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/. Dr. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, co-director of 成人B站 SCREENS, may be contacted at (580) 559-5929 or rnichlsn@ecok.edu.
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