TIGER COUNTRY Hampstead Theatre

Doctors are not perfectionists and there will, inevitably, be mistakes. If you are about to go into hospital, or are visiting a loved-one who is already in hospital, you may want to give this production a miss The last time there was a play about the NHS in London was back in 1969 when the National Theatre staged Peter Nichols’s The National Health; morbid, crude and grotesque, it was a sick joke to end all sick jokes. Now, with the government’s plans for a massive overhaul of the NHS, it might be a good moment for another satire and/or political commentary. Nina Raine’s play is neither; and her hectic, efficient production, with a fine ensemble of actors, headed by Thusitha Jayasundera and Adam James, never offers the audience anything they haven’t already seen many times on television.