Mediterranean roasted vegetables. Finnish Folk and Margaret Drabble. Adolf Hitler and the knitted cover for a toilet roll. An audience split in two experiencing auditory hallucinations. The new work from acclaimed theatre company Ridiculusmus is inspired by a treatment method for psychosis that has virtually eradicated schizophrenia from Western Lapland. The text is syncopated and harmonised throughout with duets on words and phrases, cooking up a dizzying concoction of memory, delusion and reality that culminates in a unified third act of denouement set between the past and present – the crucial defining moment of the protagonist’s life. It conjures up a comic nightmare of delusion while offering a hopeful world of polyphonic uncertainty, a world where dialogue can transform your life.
ISBN: | 9781783191086 |
Publication date: | 20th February 2014 |
Author: | David Woods, Jon Haynes, Ridiculusmus |
Publisher: | Oberon Books Ltd an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 94 pages |
Series: | Oberon Modern Plays |
Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |