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This May Hurt A Bit
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
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There is a touch of nostalgia about Stella Feehily’s new play about the NHS, not for a golden era of the health service but a reminder of the powerful agit-prop theatre of the 1970s.
In that time, companies like 7:84 and Red Ladder were performing overtly political theatre in response to the reactionary policies of right-wing governments.
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