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'As good as playing to a packed theatre': the actors who perform for stroke victims by Michael Billington

In hospitals around the UK, InterAct provides bespoke readings tailored to patients' tastes. Practitioners explain how they benefit too In 2000, the theatre director Caroline Smith nursed her brother through a terminal illness and, in the process, discovered that reading to him was a great source of stimulation. She promptly set up a charity that takes professional actors into hospitals to read poetry and stories to …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM on July 22, 2024

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