{"id":490260,"date":"2025-10-11T06:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:01:19","slug":"review-black-hole-sign-%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490260\/","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; Black Hole Sign \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A blast of Queen\u2019s 1981 chart-topper Under Pressure sets the mood for what\u2019s to follow in Uma Nada-Rajah\u2019s 90 minute play Black Hole Sign, which gives a lived insight into the state of our crumbling National Health Service, a healthcare provider that was once the envy of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nada-Rajah states in her play notes that \u2018there is something so funny and tragic about day-to-day life in hospital\u2019 and that she \u2018wanted to capture that sense of absurdity in a play that will make people laugh or cry\u2019 while causing them to thinking \u2018about the significance of care in modern society\u2019 \u2013 she succeeds on all three counts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mustseetheatre.com\/review-fierce-funny-and-sharply-informed-play-screams-save-our-nhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-attachment-id=\"618024\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/10\/review-black-hole-sign-%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f\/image-08-10-2025-at-17-42\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/F92qk9bnhVOT8KcXbWkWyg\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/10\/Image-08-10-2025-at-17.42.jpeg\/w=1200,h=799\" data-orig-size=\"1200,799\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Image 08-10-2025 at 17.42\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/F92qk9bnhVOT8KcXbWkWyg\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/10\/Image-08-10-2025-at-17.42.jpeg\/w=300,h=200\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/F92qk9bnhVOT8KcXbWkWyg\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/10\/Image-08-10-2025-at-17.42.jpeg\/w=696,h=464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760162477_314_w=1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-618024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/liam-rudden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760162479_945_7e3165247ed2c4153a29d80e1f456f0d2096b8697fbcb0de0f4a758ac39d52d7\"  class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leither. Writer | Broadcaster | Actor | Award-winning playwright\/director| Content Creator. Entertainment commentator. Theatre consultant. Former Edinburgh Evening News Arts and Entertainment Editor. 40 years in media.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blast of Queen\u2019s 1981 chart-topper Under Pressure sets the mood for what\u2019s to follow in Uma Nada-Rajah\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4154,4155,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-490260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-local-news","11":"tag-edinburgh-news","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115354016781164885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}