The play that wants to change the way we treat mental illness
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland is based on a new approach called 'open dialogue', and replicates the experience of having an auditory hallucinationCan theatre offer a cure for psychosis? It's unlikely " and it would be unwise for any theatre-maker even to try. What theatre can do, though, is convey the experience of psychosis: the hallucinations and delusions " often terrifying, sometimes comical…