The National Health
By: Peter Nichols
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Drama; Great Britain. National Health Service; Great Britain
Description: 'The National Health' is a bleak and blackly comic glimpse into the everyday life of the NHS and its patients. The nurses and doctors on the ward struggle against long hours, low funding and overwork. Intercut with the darkly comic scenes are scenes from a histrionic hospital soap opera, the reality behind them giving the lie to whitewashed scenes of medical glamour. The first production of 'The National Health' was given in 1969 at the National Theatre, London.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1991.