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‘We fetishised being young – it’s just stupid!’: Judi Dench and Richard Eyre on ageing, Covid and saving the NHS

Shot in 2021, a film of Allelujah, Alan Bennett’s 2018 play set on a geriatric ward, is released next month. How relevant does it remain? Its stars, including Jennifer Saunders and Bally Gill, share their thoughts during production – and more than a year later

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The week in theatre: The Clinic; The Snail House; Who Killed My Father; Walking With Ghosts – review

Family celebrations go pear-shaped in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s mischievous new play; Richard Eyre’s writing debut falls mysteriously flat; and Gabriel Byrne brilliantly channels his early Dublin years

The Guardian - UK

Down with the rich! Class rage fuels new wave of ‘us v them’ films and plays

From Triangle of Sadness and Parasite to The Maid, audiences are revelling tales of inter-class violence that draw on growing discontent at inequality

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Shetland star Douglas Henshall returns to London stage in historical drama

Shetland star Douglas Henshall will play a 16th century Scottish diplomat caught up in royal intrigue in his return to the London stage.

Evening Standard

The Snail House at Hampstead Theatre: Richard Eyre’s long-awaited debut play sorely disappoints

The eminent director’s first play would have benefited from a more rigorous edit

Evening Standard

The Snail House review – Richard Eyre’s debut play takes on too much

The venerable director’s drama about a doctor’s splintering family broaches huge issues but never makes a unified whole

The Guardian - UK

Allelujah review – Judi Dench stars in sweet but slight Alan Bennett hospital drama

Toronto film festival: A-listers are tended to by formidable nurse Jennifer Saunders in Richard Eyre’s adaptation of the 2018 play about a struggling geriatric hospital

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Former National Theatre boss turns playwright at Hampstead

Fomer National Theatre boss Richard Eyre has written his first original play 25 years after leaving the Southbank institution.

Evening Standard

Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre

The esteemed British director, who has died aged 97, inspired each new generation of theatre creatives to be more daring and experimental

The Guardian - UK

Roger Chapman obituary

Other lives: Touring director at the National for 16 years who took the very best of British theatre around the globe

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