Bedlam - Paperback

by Nell Leyshon (Author)

Set in the notorious 18th Century lunatic asylum that gives the play its name, Bedlam is the story of how a cruel and unusual institution starts to crumble, after the arrival of an unassuming country girl.
Nell Leyshon's new play is an anarchic tale of madness and sanity, authority and incarceration and the arbitrary lines that separate them.
Full of violence, romance and reverie, Bedlam will make history this September when it becomes the first ever production by a female writer to be staged at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Author Biography

NELL LEYSHON is a British novelist and dramatist who also writes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 2005 she won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for Comfort Me With Apples, a play which was also shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.