Barefoot Theatre Collaborative’s ‘The Last Five Years’ is a beautifully staged, if lopsidedly acted, musical about a doomed marriage between two artists
IT may be “a forgotten page in history, but what happened 30 years ago was a monumental achievement”. The words of independence and disability rights campaigner Martin Keatings yesterday, 30 years from the day his mother and her nursing colleagues established a midwifery unit in Malawi. Isla Keatings, now 64, took up the challenge when a retired colleague from Borders General Hospital, who was in Malawi, contacted her to tell her how bad conditions were for expectant mothers. She suggested doing something about it and after the ward sisters jumped aboard, it ballooned, encompassing community centres, Drumlanrig School in Hawick and, as word spread, into a nationwide effort.