'The Mental' performance for Woodbine Books
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The Mental is a warm and gentle story of one man's journey through a life that might have followed a different path.
Set in St Joseph's psychiatric hospital in 1990, The Mental is the story of John Salter, a man who has been in psychiatric care for 40 years for 'attempting to do a good deed'. But times are changing and patients are moving into community houses — something John Salter is resisting.
"If I go, who'll get the crows up in the morning and who'll get them into their nests at night?" he asks.
Castledermot-born writer John MacKenna is a former award-winning RTE producer who is also the author of several novels, short story collections, plays for radio and stage, and poetry works.
The Mental, directed by Angela Keogh, was premiered and toured in the autumn of 2018. A promotional video for the play can be seen on the Woodbine Books Facebook page.
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