PASSE MURAILLE MAINSPACE
THE HYSTERICON
06 / 2013
In late 19th century Paris, Augustine, Blanche, and Geneviève are the most famous patients of Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière insane asylum for women. Join them on a metatheatrical odyssey through madness and hysteria, the very darkest recess of psychiatric medicine. But something seems to be going wrong…
"[Good Old Neon has] taken a genre positively filled with hoary old tropes and predictable dullness, and they’ve somehow cobbled together a fresh, innovative, interesting and utterly worthwhile play." -- Mike Anderson
Photo: Nicholas Porteous (youtube.com/noveltyhat)
Text, Light Design, and Direction by Alexander Offord
Movement Choreography by Nicole Wilson
Dance Choreography by Courtney Simpson
Starring
Renée Haché
Nicholas Porteous
Lesley Robertson
Nicole Wilson