Terence and Grace, two variety actors from 1958, have been set a challenge by a top London producer to put on a full scale Romeo and Juliet with patients, relatives and staff at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability.

As part of a nine-month project, RHN benefited from our interactive performances, designed to engage patients and re-imagine their environments as well as build their confidence and integration with fellow patients and staff.

As Terence and Grace, the actors perform a play that develops through twice-weekly sessions on Cathcart, Wolfson and Chatsworth wards for three weeks.

The created characters do not see people’s limitations or acknowledge their surroundings, and are experts at knowing when to involve people and when simply to entertain them.

Through this approach we aim to improve quality of life for patients by helping them form connections and giving them new environments within which to express themselves.

‘Your group do things for our patients that my tablets can never do.’
Sister Ben (Wolfson, RHN)

‘We talk about it all the time when you’re not here'
Frances (Receptionist, Cathcart, RHN)