Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie’s 78-year-old mum has just died while in the charge of local GP Harold Shipman. Was Frank, her live-in carer, partly to blame for surrendering her to the care of “Dr Death”? Fast-forward more than 20 years, and we find Frank mute and motionless in a Hyde hospice, in the charge of Justine, a not-so-tender carer.
Henry Naylor’s two-hander (his co-star is Emily Carding) spans the two periods, and dramatises Justine’s experience when NHS patients are transferred to care homes early in the Covid pandemic. Was that act on the part of the UK government really all that different from Harold Shipman murdering 250 patients or more?
