Adapted for the stage by the author; Takin Over the Asylum is a hilarious; updated and profoundly moving adaptation of Donna Franceschilds Bafta-winning BBC TV-series. Set in a Scottish mental institution; the play reveals hope and joy in the fragile beauty of the human heart. When Ready Eddie McKenna; Soul Survivor and double glazing salesman; arrives to reinvigorate St Judes defunct hospital radio station he turns more than the ramshackle station upside down. The whisky drinking would-be DJ meets the 19-year-old bipolar Campbell; schizophrenic electronic genius Fergus; OCD Rosalie and the elusive self-harming Francine. Fighting against illness and perception Eddie and the patients of St Judes strive for their dreams to be accepted.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Delightful collection offers overview of dance since the 1980sBy Daryl ChinWendy Perron has had a wide-ranging career as a dancer; choreographer; teacher; and critic. This collection of her essays; starting from her reviews written while on staff at the Soho Weekly News in the 1980s; is a wonderful chronicle of the dance and performance scenes; her erudition; her wit; and her technical acumen (when she writes about dance; you know she is describing movement and technique from the inside; as someone who was a great practitioner of the art) make her essays resonate. The only downside to this book is that you wish there were more. Dance criticism is notoriously difficult; but Wendy Perron glides through; making it all seem so easy; offering pertinent descriptions; witty insights; and a real sense of lived experience.