A phrase we used to use: it is the best gift the British people have given to themselves. Because it is. No one else has done this.
The NHS belongs to us.
Over eighteen months Michael Wynne interviewed nurses, doctors, paramedics, historians, policy makers and politicians up and down the country, gathering an unrivalled collection of testimonies from those connected to every aspect of the NHS. In a this verbatim play, he gives voice to unheard perspectives on its past, present and possible future.
Who Cares premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April 2015 in the run up to the General Election.
Michael Wynne was born and brought up in Birkenhead. His first play, The Knocky (Meyer-Whitworth Award - Best New Playwright and Best New Writer Nomination - Writers' Guild), was produced by the Royal Court. His other credits for the Royal Court include Who Cares, The Priory (Olivier Award - Best New Comedy), The People Are Friendly, The Red Flag, Friday Night Sex (with Alecky Blythe) and I'm Not Here - The Living Newspaper. Wynne's work also includes the first new play at the rebuilt Liverpool Everyman, Hope Place, and Canvas (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), Sell Out (Best Off West End - Time Out Theatre Awards) and Dirty Wonderland (both Frantic Assembly), Tits/Teeth (Soho Theatre), The Boy Who Left Home (Actors Touring Company), We Are Here (La Mama, New York) and The Star (Liverpool Playhouse). He has also written extensively for screen, including My Summer of Love (BAFTA - Best British Film, Evening Standard Film Awards; Best Screenplay, the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival; joint winner of the Directors' Guild Award for Best British Film), Lapland and Being Eileen for the BBC.
