TIGER COUNTRY Hampstead Theatre

Nina Raine, author and director, says her play is about “how terrible and how wonderful the NHS can be simultaneously” and she has called it Tiger Country because “hospitals can be a wild place, a war zone.” A young doctor has to learn not to care too much. The hectic production, set in an A&E ward, has the authenticity of a fly-on-the-wall television documentary. The play, though never overtly political, is written with obvious detailed knowledge and empathy and becomes a political statement.