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Picture Ourselves in Latvia
by Ross Howard
Synopsis
A contemporary comedy on contemporary England.
Desires are suppressed and aspirations thwarted for both the staff and patients of a psychiatric ward.
Orderly Oliver pines for Margaret Thatcher.
Dr Rupert wants Nurse Whitehall who wants Dr Rupert.
But Dr Rupert and his wife are trying for a baby and Nurse Whitehall, who is also married, has just returned from maternity leave.
As for the patients, Duncan secretly loves Anna who secretly loves Martin who openly loves no one.
Both a love story and a modern allegory of the state, Picture Ourselves in Latvia confronts the impossibility of categorising people as either sane or insane.
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| DR. RUPERT A psychiatrist. Very English. |
| NURSE WHITEHALL A nurse. |
| OLIVER An orderly. |
| MARTIN A patient. |
| DUNCAN A patient. |
| ANNA A patient. Very Latvian. |
Publication
Picture Ourselves in Latvia is a comedy play written by Ross Howard and published by Samuel French .
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