Pipeline Theatre’s “love letter to the NHS” – and, boy, does it deserve our love now more than ever – has won over London critics just as it did in Edinburgh around the country. We’ve rounded up review highlights – and audience reactions. It must finish 21 March 2020. Time to get booking!
Written and directed by Jon Welch, Drip Drip Drip launches on tour at The Drum, Plymouth Theatre Royal from 11 February 2020 before transferring for a three-week season at London’s Pleasance Theatre from 3 to 21 March.
On the oncology ward, we meet: Daniel, a refugee from Eritrea, now a trainee nurse; Rahmiya, a Muslim doctor; and David, an elderly white cancer patient. Just another dysfunctional NHS ‘family’. But drip by drip David’s far-right ideology seeps out, poisoning Daniel and Rahmiya’s sense of belonging…
Drip Drip Drip, written and directed by Jon Welch for Pipeline Theatre, stars David Keller, Lydia Bakelmun, Micheal Workeye, Girum Bekele and Alan Munden.
Review highlights
Emma Grimsley: “Painfully relevant, hitting very close to home… Welch is not shy in his criticism of NHS cuts, or in exploring the human costs of political decisions. This show calls preconceived ideas into question and it is entertaining while still challenging how we think.”
Laura Foulger: “Through its realer-than-real characters, Drip Drip Drip recharges our empathy and sets our minds on new pathways. It’s a generous, tender snapshot of the world, an ember of hope in the darkness and a well-deserved homage to our NHS.”
Christopher O’Dea-Giordano: “Life-affirming… A simply superb production. Flawlessly performed, powerful, righteously angry, poetic, and emotionally devastating. A spectacular tour-de-force that demands to be seen and heard. Do so.”
Bea Kerry: “The company call this piece their ‘love letter to the NHS’, yet it is so much more than this… A darkly comic and politically important performance… I salute Pipeline Theatre for a performance well done.”
Helen Brown: “Pipeline Theatre is creating theatre for the enquiring mind. What they have exposed in this production is profoundly alarming and deserves a much wider audience.”
Drip Drip Drip tours from 11 February 2020, concluding in London from 3 to 21 March 2020 at the Pleasance Theatre, Carpenters Mews, North Road, London N7 9EF, where performances run Tuesdays to Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 6pm. Tickets are priced £14-16. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!
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