★★★☆☆The clamour of voices and bleeping machinery throws us into the centre of the crisis. In the past year or so we’ve grown used to watching TV news reports of hospital staff contending with the flood of Covid patients. Shaan Sahota’s audio play, based on her experiences as a medic, is an intimate account of what it felt like to be at the eye of the storm. Sahota had already written newspaper articles about those days when the first wave swept through the NHS. In her play — a co-production between the Tamasha company and Oxford Playhouse, with support from the audio specialist Sennheiser — she presents us with Jaskaran, an eager but naive medical student who becomes part of the conscript army of

Source: The Times June 15, 2021 11:03 UTC