Asylum

by  Bush, Dennis

Published: 2007

Acts: 1

Language:

Category: Drama

Acts: 1
Male Roles: 3
Female Roles: 5
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

Set in a state-run mental insitution and, at timees, in the minds of the patients, Asylum explores the flip side of sanity. We meet a former pop star who continues to live like she's in a music video, a girl who was raped by her best friend's boyfriend, a young man who does operations on stuffed animals and himslef, a woman who believes she's in the 11th month of a pregnancy, a dessert obsessed man with a Barbie voodoo doll, a lost boy who just wants to go home, and others. Through a tapestry of monologues that range from off-the-wall to terrifying, the characters search for their refuge, their shelter, their sanctuary... their home.