<div>A witty, tender, and occasionally surreal exploration of one family's experience of the National Health Service.<BR><BR>A month after stating ?we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care”, the government launched the biggest top-down reorganisation the service had seen in its 65-year history. Stella Feehily's play explores one family’s journey through the digestive system of the NHS, and asks: what is the prognosis for this much-loved institution? <I>This May Hurt A Bit</I> premiered in 2014, on a UK tour co-produced by Out of Joint, and Octagon Theatre, Bolton.<BR><BR>"Urgent, clever, anarchic... I defy anyone to leave without a renewed sense of pride in our greatest institution, and some serious concerns about its future." - <I>Time Out</I> (London)<BR><BR>"Surreal, hilarious and hard-hitting? as theatrically entertaining as it is politically committed." - <I>Observer</I><br><BR>"Urgently topical? a passionate defence of nationalised medicine and a call to fight for its preservation." - <I>Guardian</I><br><BR><B>Stella Feehily</B>'s plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre and Project Arts Centre, Dublin, among others. She was co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2007 for <I>O Go My Man.</I><br></div>