DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS CONVERSATION

DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS CONVERSATION by Mo Maka Shakespeare

25 — 28 June, The Bread & Roses Theatre

Nneka is a young resident doctor finishing the late shift. Just as she is about to leave, she is suddenly asked to lead a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) conversation with the relative of a patient she has never met, about a patient she does not know, and with almost no time to prepare.

Set entirely within this single encounter, Do Not Attempt This Conversation exposes the emotional dissonance, and occasional absurdity of end-of-life decision-making inside a healthcare system stretched to its limits.

This play invites audiences to sit inside one such moment—witnessing the collision of grief, bureaucracy, compassion, and detachment—and asks what it really means to remain humane within an inhumane system.

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