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THEATRE / Mad, bad and dangerous to know?: Siobhan Dolan talks to Jeremy Weller about his new play, Mad, in which women who have suffered from mental illness recreate scenes from their past | The Independent | The Independent

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'YOU HAVE to have felt as much as we have to connect with us . . . this is all about feeling . . . 100 per cent,' pleads a young woman in the disturbing climax to Jeremy Weller's latest play, Mad, currently at the Leith Theatre. Mad is the final part of a trilogy which has involved the homeless (Glad, 1990), young offenders (Bad, 1991) and now women with a history of mental illness, telling their real-life stories.

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