Infirmary Tales

Infirmary Tales was a play produced at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre during it's nineteenth season in Christmas of 1983. Described as "an evening of agonised glee", contributor Phil Whitchurch was inspired for the play after slipping on ice in a 1982 New Year's celebration and breaking his collar bone.

After coming out of the emergency room, he announced his idea for the play (a musical), and local writers were asked to contribute.

Of course, Brian Jacques was one of them, along with Bob Eaton, Beryl Martindale, George Costigan, Dennis Wainwright, and Alan Bleasdale.

Players

 * Mary Cunningham
 * Jane Hollowood
 * John McArdle
 * Victor McGuire
 * Lynda Rooke
 * Phil Whitchurch

Crew

 * Director: Bob Eaton
 * Designer: Sue Mayes

Running Order

 * Sister Cunningham demonstrates the Indian Shirt Trick
 * Infirmary Tales: a Musical Welcome to Casualty
 * Scars by Phil Whitchurch
 * The Docker’s Tale by Brian Jacques
 * A Demonstration of Surgical Elastic Relationships by Beryl Martindale
 * The Fowler’s Tale by George Costigan
 * At the Op by Bob Eaton
 * Removal of Razor Blades from the Stomach
 * Tommy’s Tale by Dennis Wainwright
 * Hypnosis in medicine
 * In the Bleak Midwinter by Bob Eaton
 * Doctors and Nurses, a poem by Bob Eaton
 * Only Here on a Message by Alan Bleasdale