I NEED HELP
For Maxine's class I need to think about a dramaturg-driven project and find someone to collaborate on it with, and I'm worried about that so if you're a theatre professional in the New York area you should do karma a favor and contact meeeeeeeeee, but for now I am just looking for help.
I need to know about plays and musicals that somehow feature mental illness. Here's my list so far:
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hamlet
Three Days of Rain
... As you can see, I need help. >_> So give me some lists, give me some ideas, help me out. I'll even take books and movies, even though I wanted to stick to theatre. I want to focus on mentally ill main characters, where the illness is part of the plot and faced, rather than be something from a secondary character that affects the protagonist (i.e. mentally ill parent of a child -- I would put Running With Scissors in this category, for example) or played for a laugh. I am so tired of mental illness being played for a laugh.
So please, add your own, advertise this post, help a sister out.
I need to know about plays and musicals that somehow feature mental illness. Here's my list so far:
Next to Normal
Proof
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hamlet
Three Days of Rain
... As you can see, I need help. >_> So give me some lists, give me some ideas, help me out. I'll even take books and movies, even though I wanted to stick to theatre. I want to focus on mentally ill main characters, where the illness is part of the plot and faced, rather than be something from a secondary character that affects the protagonist (i.e. mentally ill parent of a child -- I would put Running With Scissors in this category, for example) or played for a laugh. I am so tired of mental illness being played for a laugh.
So please, add your own, advertise this post, help a sister out.