Asylum Play Still Packs a Punch ; Review Bill Stone Marat/Sade the People's Company, Drum Theatre Final Performances Today

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FATHER DE COULMIER, the director of the grim Charenton Mental Asylum, encouraged the inmates to partake in amateur theatricals.

That was 200 years ago, thus making him a pioneer of group therapy. However, his forward-thinking treatment may have been somewhat diminished by his habit of inviting the public to watch the productions for entertainment.

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Asylum Play Still Packs a Punch ; Review Bill Stone Marat/Sade the People's Company, Drum Theatre Final Performances Today

At one period, the notorious Marquis de Sade was an inmate, and while there he wrote and...

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