An Arts and Healthcare project.
Six year ten pupils from Richard Lander school in 2006 were selected to create this dramatic thought provoking piece of Drama. Their task was to help establish and convey reactions to a hospital environment through a patients eyes.
The six students were given a tour of the hospital including places like the Pathology lab and the Sterilizing unit, to get an incite and overall clearer understanding of the 'goings on' at the hospital (all the time making notes on their reactions to the different areas they were shown).
One student opted to act as a patient who was going into day surgery for the removal of a "sebaceous cyst".
The rest of the group observed and took notes on his reactions and also the doctors and nurses behaviour as they treated the student as a real patient and went through all the normalities and criteria that a real patient would. All of these feelings and observations taken from the students were then developed into a piece of theatre and later turned into a short film.
Blood and Faith is one of the products of the first phase of an ongoing project with local school students. The overaching principle of the project is a two-way conversation between school pupils and health care professionals and students.
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