Outpatient review – a journalist seeks the inside scoop on death

Park theatre, LondonOlive was happy to probe strangers about their mortality – but struggles to face her own‘It’s weird we don’t talk about it,” declares journalist Olive, the alter-ego of writer and performer Harriet Madeley. Sick of reporting on Love Island, she wants to write about something worthy of a Pulitzer prize: death. Specifically, our societal reluctance to broach the subject.She visits a hospital to get the inside scoop from dying people. But she’s also having symptoms of her own and when she’s diagnosed with a rare illness, primary sclerosing cholangitis, things unravel. Continue reading...

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