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Short Play, Drama / 3w, 1m
Jimmie Chinn
Humorous, articulate and painfully observant of human nature, this is one of Chinn's most intriguing and sensitive plays. Against the background of a medical tribunal Kitty is carried along by events she hardly comprehends and we see the pattern of her life in flashbacks.
''Pity About Kitty'' is humorous, articulate and painfully observant of human nature, and this play is one of Jimmie Chinn's most intriguing and sensitive to date.
Staff Nurse Kitty, popular, good-natured and ever willing to help, is giving evidence at a medical tribunal investigating a patient's death. Suddenly she finds herself carried along by events that she hardly comprehends and and is condemned before she can even defend herself. Support, which she felt that she could count on, diminishes in the cause of self-interest, and helpful deeds performed at the time are misinterpreted. Based on a true-life incident, we see the pattern of her life in flashbacks, using imaginative lighting, heightened dialogue and delightful theatrical effects.
The play was first presented at the Duke's Head, Richmond, Surrey on the 2nd November 1987, directed by David Gilles.
The play was later broadcast by Radio 4 starring Dora Bryan on the 11th August 1998.
M1 (middle-age) F3 (40s)
The play can contain two wooden dummies or cut-outs for the tribunal scenes.
Simple interior. A space - with a long table, chairs and pols of light.
'' Superb observation of a personal dilemma.......becomes heartbreakingly real.'' Richmond and Twickenham Times.
James 'Jimmie' Chinn was born in Middleton, Lancashire on March 30th 1940 - the only son of his beloved mother, Edie. His early years, although not always easy, were to shape his writing in the future, and this often difficult time compounded his determination to achieve grea ...