The West End show took over £1 million in advance ticket sales and even extended the run to cope with demand. The production starred Alison Steadman, David Troughton, Richard Glaves, Carol Macready and Josie Walker. At the National Theatre in late 2009 Nicholas Hytner directed Bennett's play "The Habit of Art", about the relationship between the poet W. H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. Bennett's play "People" opened at the National Theatre in October 2012. In December that year, "Cocktail Sticks", an autobiographical play by Bennett, premièred at the National Theatre as part of a double bill with the monologue "Hymn". The production was directed by Bennett's long-term collaborator Nicholas Hytner. It was well-received, and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in the West End of London, being subsequently adapted for radio broadcast by BBC Radio 4. In July 2018, "Allelujah!", a comic drama by Bennett about an NHS hospital threatened with closure, opened at London's Bridge Theatre to critical acclaim. Bennett lived for 40 years on Gloucester Crescent in Camden Town in London but now lives a few minutes walk away at Primrose Hill with his partner Rupert Thomas, the editor of "The World of Interiors" magazine. Bennett also had a long-term relationship with his former housekeeper, Anne Davies, until her death in 2009. Bennett is an agnostic. He was raised Anglican and gradually "left it [the Church] over the years". In 1988, Bennett declined the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1996 declined a knighthood. In September 2005, Bennett revealed that, in 1997, he had undergone treatment for colorectal cancer, and described the illness as a "bore". His chances of survival were given as being "much less" than 50% and surgeons had told him they removed a "rock-bun" sized tumour. He began "Untold Stories" (published 2005) thinking it would be published posthumously, but his cancer went into remission. In the autobiographical sketches which form a large part of the book Bennett wrote openly for the first time about his bisexuality. Previously Bennett had referred to questions about his sexuality as like asking a man who has just crawled across the Sahara desert to choose between Perrier or Malvern mineral water. In October 2008, Bennett announced that he was donating his entire archive of working papers, unpublished manuscripts, diaries and books to the Bodleian Library, stating that it was a gesture of thanks repaying a debt he felt he owed to the British welfare state that had given him educational opportunities which his humble family background would otherwise never have afforded.