Here's the situation: you're suffering from bone cancer. Its primary symptom is intense and excruciating pain. You need relief, but the medicine the doctor prescribes just isn't enough. Somehow, you get your hands on some cannabis (marijuana) and find that it provides a much-needed break from the unceasing pain. Would you continue to use it knowing that it's illegal, and that there's a chance you'll go to jail or even face the death penalty if you're caught? But you've been told you've only got a few more months to live, and the pain is so bad...
The Necessary Stage brings this moral conundrum to the stage with its latest show, Good People. Set in a hospice, the story unfolds from the points of view of three characters. Radha (Siti Khalijah) is the terminally ill patient addicted to cannabis for pain relief. Yati (Sukania Venugopal) is a jaded nurse trying to make the best of what she considers a dead-end job. And Miguel (Rody Vera) is the new, no-nonsense medical director of the hospice.
Through these three characters, playwright Haresh Sharma and director Alvin Tan present a complex ethical problem to us and challenge our opinions on drug use, hospices and the terminally ill.
