Looking back now, the title of this project sounds gross, if not self-indulgent! “The International Theatre Goodwill Project”, but at the time I was making a point to anyone who might listen.

How I ended up as Nurse Jennings on a ward in a large Midland psychiatric hospital seemed unlikely yet nevertheless complex! I was 17 years old, thought I was working towards a theatre career and attending drama classes at a local stage school.