The Scotsman

Fringe venue to take pulse of UK health service

- By BRIAN FERGUSON

The 70 th anniversar­y of the National Health Service is set to take centre stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after one of the leading venues announced a string of shows exploring its past present and future.

Summer hall has also announced a ten- day residency for Pussy Riot, the Russian punk-feminist art collective arrested and imprisoned for protesting against Vladimir Put in, and an accompanyi­ng exhibition on global pro - test featuring work from Yoko Ono.

The NHS strand will include Gary Mcnair’s play After the Cuts, which imagines a future Scotland with a comp et ely privatised health service. The story of the modern-day NHS will be told be told by theatre- maker Jeremy Weller via testimonie­s from Edinburgh residents, carers and health profession­als.

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