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Mental. Truth is Concrete. Dam maD and other news.
the vacuum cleaner. News. Hello, here’s a little more about our recent projects. Mental: Work in Progress. Supported by the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust and Barbican. 11 to 13 October, London. The Metropolitan Police call him a domestic extremist. The NHS has labelled him as schizophrenic. “A real and present threat to the safe…
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The Mad Genius and other pathetic clichés – Second Update.
The Mad Genius and other pathetic clichés. Or. Why is madness fascinating, terrifying and underwhelming in equal measure? You’ve heard the list; Sylvia Plath, Syd Barrett, Van Gogh, Yayoi Kusama etc. – I can’t really be bothered listing more, you know the cliché. The question of significance here is: Are people who suffer debilitating mental…
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Mental – First Update.
Obviously it was something my therapist said. ‘Do you not think that your adult life has been difficult?’ I replied that it hadn’t, until she talked me through some of my experiences I had shared with her. Of having a serious mental illness and being fairly politically active. At which point I reluctantly agreed that…