Not Quite Right

Performance and Forum Theatre 2017-19

Director: Patrick Morris

Partner: The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, University of Cambridge

Collaborators: Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Joann Leeding, Helen Gardner

The Ideas Stage and THIS Institute collaborated initially for the launch of THIS Institute in January 2018.  We drilled down into some of the fundamental research questions they were asking, to create ‘Not Quite Right’.  This was the story of a couple’s journey through the health system when one of them suffers a stroke, told through a series of key snapshot scenes along the way. 

The project’s aim was to provoke debate about systematic challenges within the NHS.  We worked with Craig Baxter on the script for Not Quite Right, which also received expert input from paramedics, hospital doctors, GPs and nurses – a truly collaborative Ideas Stage script! 

Following the successful launch we worked with THIS Institute to create workshops, a film and instructional resources on how to use the play in teaching and engagement settings.  We worked with the Point of Care Foundation, the McPin Institute and the Western Health Trust in Derry to present the workshops.  Audiences included many different grades of NHS workers, patients groups, policy analysts, researchers.

To view the Interactive Video, read the Director’s Notes and the Facilitator’s Guide click here and download pdfs from the page.