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TRUST, Dying for the NHS

TRUST is a play in the form of a duologue; interspersed with the events of Margaret Smyth’s sad death, in Documentary Drama form, it is a prosaic piece of writing lasting 30 minutes. The play looks at the reason why so many health professionals used and abused the LCP (LIVERPOOL CARE PATHWAY)

 to bring about the deaths of many thousands of people. This short piece seeks to show from evidence, the way in which the LCP functioned and asks why were people prepared to behave like this. Is it an echo from a past we hoped would never

happen again? What does it mean for a future where many people would endorse the use of euthanasia without considering the implications and changes it would bring to society? Nikki Kenward, a disabled playwright wrote and directed the play. She too has

experience within the hospital environment having spent some six months ‘locked in’ as a result of an illness that left her completely paralysed for well over a year. Nikki believes that in the current climate she may well have found herself on the LCP.

  5 A DAY

Doctors in Belgium are killing 5 people a day by euthanasia. In 2014 Belgium became the first country in the world to allow children of any age to request euthanasia

5 A DAY, Moments of Love and Death is a play based on extensive research, interviews, expert opinions, and personal and published accounts. 

Each moment, each situation, asks the audience to explore and reassess long held beliefs on the issues of love, care, death with the lurking possibility of euthanasia.

The play seeks to ask: What makes a life valuable? Is it possible not to be seen as valuable, what could be the consequences of this? Who should be responsible for these decisions, it is us or a higher power? Do ‘rights’ hide the possibility of ‘wrongs’?

5 A Day is told in  five short acts, touching, revealing, soul searching, true stories told from the heart.

  5 A DAY

Doctors in Belgium are killing 5 people a day by euthanasia. In 2014 Belgium became the first country in the world to allow children of any age to request euthanasia

5 A DAY, Moments of Love and Death is a play based on extensive research, interviews, expert opinions, and personal and published accounts. 

Each moment, each situation, asks the audience to explore and reassess long held beliefs on the issues of love, care, death with the lurking possibility of euthanasia.

The play seeks to ask: What makes a life valuable? Is it possible not to be seen as valuable, what could be the consequences of this? Who should be responsible for these decisions, it is us or a higher power? Do ‘rights’ hide the possibility of ‘wrongs’?

5 A Day is told in  five short acts, touching, revealing, soul searching, true stories told from the heart.