What is it:
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland is informed by a treatment for psychosis that has seen amazing results in Western Lapland. Ridiculusmus travelled to the region to study this radical new therapy as the starting point of their own creative journey.
[…]The audience is divided in two while two sections of the play run concurrently on either side of a wall. It is only in Act 2, when the audiences switch sides, that the full story is revealed. This innovative staging offers visitors a unique and three-dimensional insight into what it is to be psychotic.”
We built a set that divided the L-shaped audience in two, thus each audience watching a different play but hearing the dialogue from the other — it was a way of simulating the experience of auditory hallucinations through modifying the theatre space.
Written by David Woods and Jon Haynes (Ridiculusmus)
My role: Directed by Gabrielle McGuinness & Jake Morris (Corpus Playroom 2016)
Photo by Johannes Hjorth