This May Hurt a Bit

ISBN-13: 9781848423596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 112 str.

Stella Feehily

Opis

A witty, tender, and occasionally surreal exploration of one family's experience of the National Health Service.
A month after stating -we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care-, the government launched the biggest top-down reorganisation the service had seen in its 65-year history. Stella Feehily's play explores one family's journey through the digestive system of the NHS, and asks: what is the prognosis for this much-loved institution? This May Hurt A Bit premiered in 2014, on a UK tour co-produced by Out of Joint, and Octagon Theatre, Bolton.
-Urgent, clever, anarchic... I defy anyone to leave without a renewed sense of pride in our greatest institution, and some serious concerns about its future.- - Time Out (London)
-Surreal, hilarious and hard-hitting... as theatrically entertaining as it is politically committed.- - Observer
-Urgently topical... a passionate defence of nationalised medicine and a call to fight for its preservation.- - Guardian
Stella Feehily's plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre and Project Arts Centre, Dublin, among others. She was co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2007 for O Go My Man.