Things That Matter 17 to 29 August, ASB Waterfront

Theatre, Auckland

The world premiere of the stage adaption of New Zealand intensive care specialist and veteran of Middlemore Hospital Dr David Galler’s best-selling memoir, Things That Matter: Stories of Life & Death, which shines a powerful light on the extraordinary patients Galler met and the struggles Aotearoa faces in caring for those in need. Playwright Gary Henderson interweaves the life story of David Galler and his Jewish Polish immigrant parents, who survived the Holocaust, with the complex decisions doctors, families, whānau and society must confront. Described as compassionate and illuminating. atc.co.nz