Chairs and Beds: The Theatre of the Absurd [balance!]

Hodges' model: Stages of Care/Despair

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Beds needed for 'treatment' mental illness and physical, preparedness for public health events. Reduced beds for 'modern medicine', sustainable health care, reflecting health education, preventive approaches and improved health literacy (. . .?).

NHS hospital beds data analysis We look at NHS bed data in England compared to other countries, bed stocks over time, the impact of COVID-19, safety breaches and intensive care capacity.

"The Theatre of the Absurd, on the other hand, tends toward a radical devaluation of language, toward a poetry that is to emerge from the concrete and objectified images of the stage itself. The element of language still plays an important part in this conception, but what happens on the stage transcends, and often contradicts, the words spoken by the characters. In Ionesco's The Chairs, for example, the poetic content of a powerfully poetic play doe not lie in the banal words that are uttered but in the fact that they are spoken to an ever-growing number of empty chairs." p.26.

Bed Availability and Occupancy – KH03 "Bums on seats" (Lecture theatres)

Esslin, Martin. The theatre of the absurd. London: Pelican, 1982. (3rd Ed.).