A play looks into the psychotic experience

Bewildering: Hallucinations define reality for those with schizophrenia and related conditions.

The Eradication Of Schizophrenia In Western Lapland takes its audience through the looking glass for a better understanding of schizophrenia.

CAN 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 – that define reality for those with schizophrenia and related conditions.