University of Oxford Student Season: Michaelmas Term 2025

Presented by Wide Eye Productions

By Orla Wyatt

Woolwich hospital. A&E waiting room. No sign of a doctor. Orla Wyatt’s fierce and funny new play, ‘A&E’, is a comedic drama about misfits, judgement and unexpected humanity.

This new play invites the audience to sit in the A&E waiting room and participate in humanity’s favourite activity: voyeurism. It follows the chance encounter of a hospital regular, a volatile and twitching addict seeking help for her meth problem, and a cocky prisoner with a broken hand, who, together, seem to see what others can’t.

University of Oxford’s student theatre company Wide Eye Productions presents a bold and witty take on class prejudice, moral ambiguity and Maltesers. In the fluorescent light of the waiting room, who’s really sick and who’s still human?