Before The Drugs Kick In – The Space @ Surgeon’s Hall
‘Three months ago I cut my wrists in front of my two children.’
No, this wasn’t an easy watch.
Maria DeCotis plays 62-year-old Lynn T Walsh, a woman deemed a danger to those around her, isolated from her family for 20 years in a mental asylum in America. She’s given very little help but lots of ‘medicine’. Pretty much treated as a criminal, she points out the ridiculous double-standards at work given the behaviour of certain well-known film and TV people. Her ‘crime’; an almost subconscious emotional reaction to the stresses associated with bringing up a family more or less singlehandedly in a suburban setting where the simple act of going out for a walk attracts the wrong sort of comments.
Incarcerated she may be but in her mind she becomes a 28-year-old stand-up and humorou...