For the Best?
Arts Centre Washington
Thursday 12th February
The
NHS promises equal health care for all. But that’s not the case according to a thought-provoking
drama at the Arts Centre Washington.
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Operating Theatre actress
Louise Dearden who plays
the angry careworker
in For the Best
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The
provocatively titled ‘For the Best’ suggests the NHS demonstrates an uncaring
attitude towards people with learning disability, in particular women who die
on average 20 years earlier than the rest of the population.
‘It’s a shocking fact that according to a confidential
enquiry last year 37 per cent of the deaths of people with learning disability
might have been avoided if those people had received the level of health care
on offer to the rest of us,’ says ‘For
the Best’ director Alex Elliott.
‘Everyone
knows there are immense pressures on the NHS which makes it increasingly
important that people with learning disability should not be forgotten and
treated as somehow less important when it comes to health care.’
The
play, is the work of Operating Theatre, a north-east based company which
specialises in drama on health and social care issues. It was written after
considerable research, talking to people with learning disability, to doctors
and other health care professionals involved in the field. At its heart is the relationship between a
woman with learning disability and her care worker who is angry at the poor
treatment the woman receives and which is responsible for the tragedy which
occurs.
Operating
Theatre’s radical way of working means that the audience
will be able to have their say on the issue in a facilitated discussion which
will form part of the performance.
On The
Web:
Website:
http://operatingtheatre.org.uk/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/OperatingThtr
Tickets:
For The Best is on at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday 12th
February at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £7.50
or £5 for Concessions and are available from www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
or by calling 0191 219 3455
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