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.