Arts House, Meat Market, North Melbourne
12 to 16 November 2014
I am not reviewing this for Herald Sun. I am hoping to see it but am not sure yet. I love Ridiculusmus. Wonder if they can bring it back for a longer season? KH
Cast:
Jon Haynes, Ben Grant, David Woods and Nicola Gunn
From Media Release
" The first of a trilogy of work to be developed over the next five years focusing on mental health, The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland immerses the audience in an ambitious and innovative split staging arrangement where the action and dialogue from two different sequences of scenes are simultaneously performed to two different groups of audience in the same space.
"An investigation of auditory hallucination through the lens of one family’s experience of psychoses, The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland presents the first psychotic episodes of a mother and son; with fantastical results involving Finnish Folk, roast vegetables, Adolf Hitler and a knitted toilet roll cover.
"Inspired by the Finnish “Open Dialogue” treatment method, The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland conjures both a comic, delusional nightmare and a hopeful world of polyphonic uncertainty.
"Based on the idea that psychosis happens “between people” and not “within”, Open Dialogue focuses not on “curing” individuals but on the network of relationships surrounding them."
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