Madness in Contemporary British Theatre

Introduction                                                                                                           

          2.2 Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Madness in Sarah Daniels' Head-Rot Holiday              

          2.3 Diagnosis through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange  

          2.4 The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect

          2.5 Conclusion                                                                                                            

3. Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space, and Mad Experience                         

          3.1 Introduction                                                                                                           

3.2 Uncertain Meanings and the Family in Ridiculusmus' The Eradication of
Schizophrenia in Western Lapland                                                                                 3.3 Away with the Fairies: Globalization, Madness and the Fairytale in Caryl
Churchill's The Skriker                                                                                                

3.4 Smoke in your Eyes: Spaces of Hallucination, Intersectionality, and Invisible
Violence in debbie tucker green's nut                                                                            



          3.5 Conclusion                                                                                                            

4. Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad              

          4.1 Introduction                                                                                                           

          4.2 Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander: Seeing the Witness in 4.48 Psychosis                        

4.3 What's my Motivation? The Implications of Engagement in David Greig's
Fragile                                                                                                                        

4.4 Ghosted Autopsies in Analogue's Beachy Head                                                       

          4.5 Conclusion                                                                                                            

5. Madness and the Ethical Encounter in Autobiographical Performance                                  

          5.1 Introduction                                                                                                           

          5.2 The Uncertain Hand in James Leadbitter's Mental                                                    

          5.3 Confession of an Expert: Peas and Comedy in Bobby Baker's How to Live                

5.4 The Obscured Face of the Volunteer in Bryony Kimmings' and Tim Grayburn's
Fake It 'Til You Make It                                                                                               

          5.5 Conclusion                                                                                                            

6. Conclusion