This Might Not Be It review: Behind the Perspex partition - a sweetly 希望に満ちた look at the NHS's mental health care system, 令状s PATRICK MARMION

By Patrick Marmion

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This Might Not Be It (Bush Theatre, London)

判決: Could be it

率ing:

Thanks to this week's depressing news of a 深くするing 危機 in children's mental health care 準備／条項, Sophia Chetin-Leuner's new play, This Might Not Be It, is regrettably timely.

It is, however, also a sweetly 希望に満ちた, broom cupboard-sized 演劇 始める，決める on the other 味方する of the Perspex partition in a children and adolescent outpatient department.

The 活動／戦闘 hinges on Angela and Jay, a 二塁打 行為／法令／行動する of an old-lag receptionist and a young idealist.

Angela runs her own bespoke とじ込み／提出するing system under the mantra of '言及する, 言及する, 言及する'.

Jay is a 訓練生 therapist who is 決定するd to digitise the folders scattered all over the office 床に打ち倒す.?

This Might Not Be It production photos taken on the 30th January 2024 taken at the Theatre Bush, London

This Might Not Be It 生産／産物 photos taken on the 30th January 2024 taken at the Theatre Bush, London

The action hinges on Angela and Jay, a double act of an old-lag receptionist and a young idealist

The 活動／戦闘 hinges on Angela and Jay, a 二塁打 行為／法令／行動する of an old-lag receptionist and a young idealist

Both answer to unseen Gary ― the NHS's answer to Samuel Beckett's Godot, 手渡すing 負かす／撃墜する 判決，裁定s from the 4th 床に打ち倒す.

Chetin-Leuner 展示（する）s a talent for tautology with lines like Jay's 'you don't know stuff until you know stuff'.

But she also 示唆するs how the dysfunctional NHS does somehow still manage to 機能（する）／行事 ― and how staff can connect with 患者s にもかかわらず 鎮圧するing 官僚主義 and the 誘惑 to despair.

This could be more fully 調査するd in a longer play but, like the 令状ing, Ed Madden's 生産／産物 is a hyper-realist distillation of a dog-eared hospital office.

There are neat turns from Debra パン職人's officious yet warm-hearted Angela, Denzel Baidoo's naive and bashful Jay, 加える Dolly Webb as an all too familiar, 攻撃を受けやすい teenage girl.

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