Fringe venue to take pulse of UK health service
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.