Winner Idea Production, Offies 2022
An Offie-winning ensemble piece for a world in need of compassion
The Language of Kindness is a joy-filled celebration of nurses and front-line healthcare workers, which has resonated with audiences everywhere following the COVID-19 pandemic. It was first performed in 2021, in the very first week that theatres were allowed to open post-lockdown.
Based on Christie Watson’s bestselling memoir of her twenty years as a nurse, the ensemble-style show brings to life the realities, the challenges, heartbreaks and incomparable joys of working for the NHS and supporting families as they face their best and worst moments. A socially distanced production about the tactile work of nurses where the company never touch.
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Co-produced by Wayward Productions with Complicité, Assembly Hall Theatre Tunbridge Wells, Warwick Arts Centre in association with Shoreditch Town Hall and Guy Chapman.
Generously supported by Arts Council England, Didymus Charity, D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Empathy Arts, Garrick Charitable Trust, Golsoncott Foundation, Leche Trust, Maria Björnson Memorial Fund, Newby Trust, Noël Coward Foundation, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation and Sylvia Waddilove Foundation.
