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"After
a hard day at work, the bawdy hospital-based comedy
'Stand and Deliver' was just the tonic last night at
Wakefield Theatre Royal
for a sell-out audience to laugh their way through ..."
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Don
Mort, Wakefield Express, 27 May 2009 |
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Winner
- Audience Award
Wakefield Drama Festival
- JABA Players - 2009 |
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 This
extremely funny play takes a 'behind the scenes'
look into the world of the maternity ward.
Join sex-mad nurse Lindsay Walker, and the
four ladies on C Ward.
The patients are : Vivien Withrington whose
husband forgot to pay the private health insurance;
Lizzie who has been caught out in the change
of life; Nicola who gets confused easily and
whose baby will have to match the soft furnishings
in her house, and Michelle, whose only mistake
was drinking alcopops and being 16.
Three of these four have the husbands they
deserve, who each tries to help his wife during
the last few hours before 'the big push' in
the only way they know best - by being a man,
and either not being there, or retiring as
often as possible to the TV Room. Michelle
though, has her mum - a domineering matriarch
who is desperate that the baby is adopted
to prevent the shame of having to reveal that
her daughter is an unmarried mother.
 The
delivery rooms are full and so Vivien (who
insisted on delivering in the birthing pool
at the private 'Fairhomes' nursing home) together
with Nicola have to deliver in their beds
on the ward, during which Sister Mitchell
and Nurse Walker show their compassionate
side.
Through all this, the two domestics (Dot and
Brenda) provide a down-to-earth patter of
comfort to the labouring mothers, and barbed
wit to the hospital staff.
It may sound like an unlikely setting for
a comedy play, but Janet Shaw has a talent
for turning the most incongruous situation
and poking fun at it, or the people in it.
This is truly a side-splitting comedy, which
will leave you in stitches ... from laughing.
It contains strong language and is not suitable
for the easily offended. Pre-viewed on BBC
Look North in November 1997, it is a guaranteed
success. |
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| Lindsay Walker
- a young midwife/nurse. Man-mad with a good
bedside manner. |
| Sister Mitchell
- a typical ward manager. Competent, but cold |
| Dr Mathers
- a Doctor at the hospital, and Lindsay's
current sleeping partner. |
| Dot - a middle
aged domestic. |
| Brenda - another
middle-aged domestic. Not as bright as Dot. |
| Vivien Withrington
- a social climber, "keeps up with the
Jones's", likes things her own way. |
| Clive Withrington
- tries hard to give Vivien what she demands,
not always successfully |
| Lizzie Meadows
- a mother of five teenage children |
| Eric Meadows
- a 'traditional' northern father, old-fashioned
views, strong Yorkshire accent |
| Trish Meadows
- their teenage daughter. |
| Nicola Ward
- first-time anxious mother-to-be, reads a
birth manual to maintain her confidence |
| Kevin Ward
- first-time anxious father-to-be, wants to
video the whole affair |
| Michelle Greenwood
- young, innocent, made a mistake, desperately
wants to keep the baby |
| Mrs Greenwood
- Michelle's domineering mother, desperately
wants to have the baby adopted |
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| Duration |
: 100 mins |
| Acts |
: 2 |
| Principals |
: 4m, 10f |
| Sets |
: 1 |
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