STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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A real clap for carers
GORDON PARSONS recommends an excellent theatrical tribute to nursing staff
ON THE TREADMILL: Scene from The Language of Kindness
[Ali Wright]
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
The Language of Kindness
Warwick Arts Centre/Touring
THERE’S an undeniable chemistry in the live theatre experience, even in a space necessarily less than half full and the audience socially distanced, which no online performance can hope to capture.
And it would be difficult to imagine a more currently appropriate play to mark a return to the stage than Sasha Milavic Davies and James Yeatman’s adaptation of Christie Watson’s acclaimed account of her long nursing career.
The Language of Kindness for Wayward Productions recounts the exhausting and exhaustive life of a hospital nurse from rookie days, learning and surviving the realities of the ward world, to senior nurse. With responsibilities for lives and deaths as demanding practically and, more so, emotionally than that of the doctors, she brilliantly overcomes obvious hurdles.
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