Divided Laing, The: or The Two Ronnies - Softcover

"A magical mystery tour into the mind of RD Laing, Patrick Marmion keeps one foot in the past and one in the far-future to create a brilliantly imaginative, very funny play for today." Leo Butler, playwright. "Fiercely intelligent and hugely entertaining." Alistair Beaton, satirist and writer on Spitting Image. "Patrick Marmion never loses his masterly grip on his unruly subject's strategies to defeat his professional rivals and his personal nightmares." Lloyd Trott, Dramaturg, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

London, 1970: Experimental psychiatrist R.D. Laing is facing eviction from his pioneering asylum in the East End's Kingsley Hall. Local residents are up in arms and to make matters worse, Ronnie s revolutionary colleague David Cooper is flipping out on the roof... Will Laing take a one-way trip to madness or can breakdown sometimes mean breakthrough? This manic farce explores the ideas of radical psychiatrist RD Laing on the 50th anniversary of the Philadelphia Association which he co-founded. His visionary ideas about the treatment of those with mental health issues, have now been incorporated into everyday practice. A fast-paced mind-bending play fun to perform.