The MDs Comedy Revue

Established in 1898 (or most likely earlier) on the wards of the Middlesex Hospital, a group of medical students performed to patients to provide some Christmas cheer. Uninterrupted during  the years of the Great War, this continued until 1930 when the first theatrical concert took place in the Courtauld Institute. During 1940 & 1941, no concert took place at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (MHMS) due to medical students being evacuated to Aylesbury, but concerts took place here instead. The 'Manic Depressives' were first mentioned as such by 1950, and by the mid 50s, the annual Christmas Concerts had grown to full scale theatrical productions. 

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Performed in the Courtauld Institute's Student Restaurant:

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1954 The Houseman's Choice

1955 The Name is the Same, or, Ham Salad Days

1956 Under Milk Drip

1957 The Great Silverstool Handicap

1958 Laudable Pus

 

Performed in the Edward Lewis Theatre (ELT), Windeyer Building:

1959 Don't Let Labour Ruin It, or, All Quiet The Y-Front

1960 Lady Chatterley's Liver

1961 Great Expectorations

1962 Tabes In The Wood

1963 Panorrhoea

1964 Cold Finger

1965 Ready, Steady, No

1966 Beyond the Syringe

1967 Kama Suture

1968 Cilia And Cornea

1969 Oh! What A Lovely Wart

1970 All Gas and Flatus

1971 Clap!

1972 Clockwork Orifice

1973 Last Plaster in Paris

1974 Maim

1975 Tummy

1976 One Threw Up In The Doctors Mess

1977 Amenomania

1978 Casualty Night Fever, or, Whose Knife is it Anyway?

1979 Quadroplegia

1980 The Enema Strikes Back

1981 Irradiating Rita

1982 Smily's Pimple

1983 Proctopussy

1984 The Honorary Tonsil

1985 Desperately Leaking Lumen

1985 Special Performance for the 150th Anniversary of the MHMS
1986 Hannah and her Cystoscope
1987 101 Malformations
1988 Cuts

 

Performed in the Bloomsbury Theatre:

1989 Three Men And A Maybe

1990 The Man With The Swollen Bum

1991 The Sly Glance At The Glans

1992 Ailing Lung 3

1993 Thoracic Spark

1994 Polyp Friction
1995 SwollenStye
1996 Brainclotting
1997 Men In White
1998 Viagra Falls
1999 The Wage Is Not Enough
2000 Rare Itch 2
2001 2001: A Spacious Orifice
2002 Peter Pan And The Chamber Of Secretions
2003 Matron Revolution
2004 Dead Dwarf
2005 Aladdin Yerbum
2006 The Wizard Of Obs
2007 How Do You Solve The Problem Gonorrhoea?
2008 ...And Now For Something Completely C.diff-erent

2009 Crash Team: Adventures of the Hippocratic Oafs

2010 Pirates of the Perineum

2011 Back to the Suture

2012 Wonky Willy and the Cough-A-Lot Factory

 

Performed in the Peter Samuel Hall, Royal Free Hospital:

2013 Jingle Bell's Palsy

2014 Murmur on the Orient Express

2015 Bedpans and Broomsticks

2016 The Italian Swab

2017 TBA

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Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe:

2015 A Jam-maker's Guide to Self Preservation

2016 The Curious Case of the Doc on the Night Shift

2017 (No Show)

2018 TBC