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Alan Bennett with Dr Roy MacGregor |
‘There’s even coffee’! Playwright Bennett opens super-surgery run by doctors
YOU would never have guessed the bespectacled man regaling the waiting room of a Kentish Town super-surgery with gag after gag yesterday (Wednesday) was one of Britain’s leading playwrights.
But Alan Bennett revealed how his own doctor’s surgery had provided him with a rich seam of comic inspiration.
“I have written two scenes set in a waiting room,” he told the crowds as he opened the new James Wigg practice in Bartholomew Road. “One with Julie Walters, and she says ‘they’ve sent my sputum to Newcastle’. Then she says ‘they do that these days – my sister’s urine went to Clitheroe’.”
Recalling the days when the centre was post-code hopping between homes in the 12-year lead-up to its present site, Mr Bennett said: “Today there’s even coffee! All we used to get was three bored goldfish.”
The James Wigg practice in Bartholomew Road was transformed into a “polyclinic” when it was unveiled in December as part of the Kentish Town Health Centre, a four-storey building including social care services that would normally be found in a hospital.
Mr Bennett also paid tribute to Dr Roy MacGregor, a practice partner at the James Wigg. Unlike other “polyclinics”, which are to be developed by private operators, the James Wigg is run by its own doctors. Dr MacGregor told the crowds: “You’re the reason we’re all here.” |
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