Current location:World Wave news portal > politics
This Might Not Be It review: Behind the Perspex partition
World Wave news portal2024-05-22 04:19:43【politics】0People have gathered around
IntroductionThis Might Not Be It (Bush Theatre, London)Verdict: Could be itRating:Thanks to this week's depressi
This Might Not Be It (Bush Theatre, London)
Verdict: Could be it
Thanks to this week's depressing news of a deepening crisis in children's mental health care provision, Sophia Chetin-Leuner's new play, This Might Not Be It, is regrettably timely.
It is, however, also a sweetly hopeful, broom cupboard-sized drama set on the other side of the Perspex partition in a children and adolescent outpatient department.
The action hinges on Angela and Jay, a double act of an old-lag receptionist and a young idealist.
Angela runs her own bespoke filing system under the mantra of 'refer, refer, refer'.
Jay is a trainee therapist who is determined to digitise the folders scattered all over the office floor.
This Might Not Be It production photos taken on the 30th January 2024 taken at the Theatre Bush, London
The action hinges on Angela and Jay, a double act of an old-lag receptionist and a young idealist
Both answer to unseen Gary — the NHS's answer to Samuel Beckett's Godot, handing down rulings from the 4th Floor.
Chetin-Leuner exhibits a talent for tautology with lines like Jay's 'you don't know stuff until you know stuff'.
But she also suggests how the dysfunctional NHS does somehow still manage to function — and how staff can connect with patients despite crushing bureaucracy and the temptation to despair.
This could be more fully explored in a longer play but, like the writing, Ed Madden's production is a hyper-realist distillation of a dog-eared hospital office.
There are neat turns from Debra Baker's officious yet warm-hearted Angela, Denzel Baidoo's naive and bashful Jay, plus Dolly Webb as an all too familiar, vulnerable teenage girl.
Address of this article:http://comoros.3elevenboutique.com/content-40b599959.html
Very good!(81486)
Related articles
- China's first intelligent offshore drilling platform installed
- Cold Harbin a hot tourism destination for holiday
- 3 scientists share 2022 Nobel Chemistry Prize
- Retailers get into celebratory mood
- College baseball notebook: Conference tournaments to decide NCAA automatic bids and many at
- Luxury shopping over extended holiday heating up
- Holiday to spur recovery in tourism
- China now S. Korea's top e
- Revealed: Brit tourist, 19, subjected to sex attack in Majorca 'was gang
- Xi Calls for New, Greater Contributions to Advancing Cause of Women and Children
Popular articles
Recommended
What's next for Iran after death of its president in crash?
Retailers get into celebratory mood
New advances inspire China's deep space exploration
China prepares to launch Tianzhou
Medics remove 150 MAGGOTS from a woman's mouth after dental procedure left her with rotting tissue
Index reflects nation's strength in AI governance
China prepares to launch Tianzhou
Boeing ousts head of its 737 MAX program
Links
- Maui to hire expert to evaluate county's response to deadly wildfire
- Croatia conservative leader Plenkovic appointed as prime minister
- No sign of widespread lead exposure from Maui wildfires, Hawaii health officials say
- Harris congratulates HBCU graduates in video message for graduation season
- Club World Cup: Why FIFA is facing pushback over US
- Virginia judge to decide whether state law considers embryos as property
- Mike Trout decided having surgery was better option than being only a DH
- Inside Jackass star Steve
- Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
- Marcus Armstrong pays tribute to cancer patients with special paint job for Indy Grand Prix