1955. Great Ormond St. A baby’s life is saved and the child is operated on.The child is not expected to live beyond 12 years old.
2025. University College Hospital Galway Ireland. He is now 70, with heart failure and other complications..

This poetic drama digs right into how we deal with hospitalisation, through Max’s own autobiographical material, juxtaposing his adult hospital experience with that of being a disempowered child. It is a journey of healing and transformation
Hospital has the rhythm of a war; It changes patients, opens doors for kindness but also releases demons.
Medicine is an inexact science. Medical staff are under stress and often do not register their impact on patients. What you are told can be a curious mixture of truth and lies.
Told by a group of actors with a commissioned score by John Daly.
There will be a talkback on the show after the matinee

Max Hafler is a writer/ teacher and director who has several plays to his credit including Albion Tower (BBC Winner of Sony Award), Alien Nation(Cuirt/GYT), Lotto! Donkey Thief and Veritas (RTE) Grand and Melting Doves (Yew Theatre Ballina). He has two books, Teaching Voice and What Country Friends is This? published by Nick Hern Books. He was the joint winner of the very first Apples and Snakes Performance Poetry Competition.

The show contains some swearing and discussions of illness and death.