Performance, Madness and Psychiatry (eBook)

Susan Cox, University of British Columbia, Canada Bridget Escolme, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Juliet Foster, University of Cambridge, UK Anna Harpin, of Exeter, UK Rebecca Loukes University of Exeter, UK Sarah Rudolph University of Wisconsin-Marathon County, USA Richard Stern Queen Mary, University of London, UK Dylan Tighe, Independent Theatre Maker, UK

Cover 1
Contents 8
List of Illustrations 10
Acknowledgements 12
Notes on Contributors 13
Introduction: Locating Madness and Performance 16
Section I: Historical Perspectives 32
1 Smart's Authority and the Eighteenth-Century Mad-Business 33
2 Performance in Bethlem, Fulbourn and Brookwood Hospitals: A Social Psychological and Social Historical Examination 56
Section II: Applying Performance 77
3 A Life of their Own: Reflections on Autonomy and Ethics in Research-Based Theatre 78
4 Whose Mind is it Anyway?: Acting and Mental Illness 98
Section III: Contemporary Practices 122
5 Start Making Sense 123
6 'No one ever listens': Body, Space and History in RedCape Theatre's The Idiot Colony 149
Section IV: Theatrical Maladies 175
7 Ophelia Confined: Madness and Infantilisation in Some Versions of Hamlet 176
8 Dislocated: Metaphors of Madness in British Theatre 198
Afterword: Relocating Madness 227
Select Bibliography 230
Index 235