The Human Body
Author(s):
Lucy Kirkwood
Company:
Donmar Warehouse
“The window for change—real change I mean—will close. It’s already closing. Very soon it will be shut, and we shan’t be able to get it open again.”
Two worlds meet in a romantic drama which sees stars of film and TV, Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport, return to the London stage.
1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, Socialist and Labour party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan’s National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free health care for all.
At home, she is a mother and wife to an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her quiet, certain world upside down.
