
Asylum Workshop
by Colin Murphy
Title:
Asylum Workshop
Author:
Colin Murphy
Series (if any):
Modern Plays
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
96 pages
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13:
9781350429734
EAN:
9781350429734
Publication Date:
12/06/2023
Classifications:
Plays, playscripts
Weight (g):
234
Dimensions (mm):
197 x 129 x 10
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
You think this is dignified? A bunch of students playing with someone’s medical records?Why did 20th century Ireland lock up so many people? After all the scandals about Ireland’s institutions - the industrial schools, the mother and baby homes, the Magdalene laundries - why have we still barely investigated the largest institutions of them all: the psychiatric hospitals?Today, Grangegorman is home to the newly opened campus of Technological University Dublin. But for nearly 200 years, it housed a forbidding institution behind high walls.The Asylum Workshop is a new documentary play by Colin Murphy about the history of Ireland’s first public psychiatric hospital. Drawing on unique access to the hospital’s archives, it weaves together verbatim testimony from patients and families, reports from doctors and nurses, and analysis from historians and psychiatrists.This edition is published to coincide with the production by Technological University Dublin and Grangegorman Histories in the East Quad Black Box Theatre in June 2023.





















