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Nil By Mouth

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  6w, 6m

John Chapman

M6 (1 young West Indian, under 40, 2 elderly); F6 (1 West Indian, 1 elderly) (1F old, non-speaking). Mixed hospital ward

By the successful author of Kindly Leave the Stage and Shut Your Eyes and Think of England, comes this very funny take on the N…

Nil By Mouth

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    6w, 6m

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M6 (1 young West Indian, under 40, 2 elderly); F6 (1 West Indian, 1 elderly) (1F old, non-speaking). Mixed hospital ward By the successful author of Kindly Leave the Stage and Shut Your Eyes and Think of England, comes this very funny take on the National Health Service. Chaos erupts as patients, agency nurses, doctors and sisters battle it out at the start of another busy weekend on the under-funded and under-staffed mixed ward of St Christopher's Hospital. A catalogue of disastrous mistaken identities leads to wrongful diagnosis, visitors becoming patients, and all manner of medical mishaps.

  • Time Period Contemporary

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John Chapman

John Chapman
John Chapman initially trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After three years on stage, he decided to turn his skills away from the spoken word and towards the text itself. His first play, DRY ROT, opened at the Whitehall Theatre, London, in 1954. It prov ...
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