"one part police procedural, one part emotional tear-jerker, and one part pithy political commentary...director Lucy Wray astutely shifts the action from hospital, to speeding car, to hospital visiting room, to over-crowded council office, using just three shimmering glass-panes and Hector Murray’s intelligent lighting.

It’s compact. It’s compelling. It’s exactly the sort of quality work that crops up consistently at the New Diorama, and exactly the kind of company that needs a wider audience."

THE STAGE

New Diorama 29 May - 16 June 2018; HOME Manchester July 2018

by NDT Associate Ensemble Lost Watch

http://www.lostwatchtheatre.co.uk/

Cast: Jennifer Daley, Rianna Dearden, Rachel Hosker, Adam Langstaff, Jamie Samuel

Lighting Designer: Hector Murray

Sound Designer: Fergus Waldron

The Stage WhatsOnStage

Everything Theatre Attitude

Breaking the Fourth Wall The Spy in the Stalls

Becca leaves the office at 8.56am. Uniform is waiting. They speed across the city, blues and twos blaring, on the trail of a missing woman.

This is like a police drama! Except Becca is a social worker, and they never put social workers in police dramas.

Budgets across councils are at breaking point, making a difficult job increasingly impossible. Demand is high, wages are low, and burnout is common. Based on research, interviews and testimonial, Left My Desk is a play about social care in England today, exploring the crisis unfolding throughout our system.