Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell

Kal is seriously considering sedating the next patient who asks to be treated by a proper English doctor. Dom just wants to get into the shower while there’s still hot water. Felicity is living for the weekend. Lucy got her last choice ward and feels like she’s drowning. Tom’s getting good at tuning everything out and would quite like to keep it that way. Grace is just looking for someone to feed her cat while she’s on call.

They all work in the hospital down the road from you.

Resuscitate present a collection of the sometimes funny, sometimes tragic true stories from the inside of the surgical mask. Follow the paths of six junior doctors as they struggle to balance the pressures of the ward against their personal lives.

Rounds features stunning physical work from Lecoq ensemble interwoven with projection and visual theatre.

Praise for Rounds

“Rounds is a lesson in vulnerability. Without vulnerability we will never learn and we will never recover.” Exeunt Theatre Magazine

"One of the most important things the show conveys is the psychological state of the Junior Doctors.” Female Arts

Recommended for ages 12+

Post Show discussion on Friday 24th March
Panel will include:
Resuscitate Theatre, Doctors Support Network, Creative Dissent and Docs not Cops

Reviews

"...This is a well-researched and well-planned production from a skillful team which boldly tackles a difficult subject with considerable sensitivity and honesty." ★★★★

ActDrop

"Resuscitate Theatre has done a fantastic job of creating a piece that’s both socially relevant, and also theatrically brilliant, making its message of effecting change resonate all the more in its viewers."

Bakchormeeboy

"...Shows like Rounds are more important than ever..."

Theatre Things

"It is a believable, compassionate, sometimes funny and towards the end very moving performance."

British Theatre Guide

"This highly relevant play reflects the situation of not only junior doctors but the health service in general."

UK Theatre Network

"Rounds is both well-researched and well-performed. Resuscitate Theatre have created an engaging piece of theatre which carries an important message."

Culturised

"Rounds is relevant and moving theatre at a time of desperate crisis in the NHS."

Ginger Wig & Strolling Man

"Rounds beautifully conveyed how the pressures of the overstretched NHS can fall unequally hard on the junior doctors."

Dulwich OnView