On April 16th at 8:00 pm, Dixon Place proudly presents the world premiere of Asylum, written and performed by James Braly.
Asylum is a darkly comic autobiographical story of a teenaged pot head seeking enlightenment who – on advice of the psychiatrist claiming he was reincarnated from a past life to help him in this life -- checks himself in to a psychiatric hospital before he drops out of high school. The locked ward is full of surprises: kids in straightjackets, often medicated to the point of catatonia, and inpatients who in many ways, are more sane than the outpatients he left behind. Leading him to a disturbing discovery: what seems normal is not, and that this place, full of certifiable lunatics considered to be dangers to themselves and to society, is in some ways more stable than his home. Which begs the question: what is the real asylum?
For Reservations & advanced tickets visit www.dixonplace.org or call 212.219.0736. Now through April 1st: all tickets $12.50 | April 2nd – April 15th: all tickets $17.50 | April 16th – May 22nd: all tickets $25 | (Preview Performances: $10)
Official Website: http://www.dixonplace.org
Added by interncohndutcher on March 25, 2010