Sir John Mills, IpswichMelody is a mental hospital psychiatrist treating a patient who sometimes thinks he's Neil Diamond, but mostly thinks he's the 19th-century poet John Clare. The poet himself spent significant swaths of his life in a mental asylum, and the stories of the two Johns ingeniously meet and collide in this unassuming touring show from Eastern Angles, originally created to be performed at Clare's cott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM on April 10, 2013