From Here to Insanity

Premise

A psychiatrist’s ex-wife ends up playing hostess to several extraordinary patients with multiple personalities when a nearby mental hospital burns down. James gets blackouts – that’s when his alter female personality Rita make an appearance. The woman has two personalities the classic Madonna/whore syndrome and Benny – Benny just talks in sound effects.

Theme

Crazy is just a different point of view.

Hook

Multiple personalities were never funnier.

Media

“All the ingredients for farce are there in Caroline Russell-King’s new play: an oddball situation that gets sillier as the performance progresses, some funny lines and characters begging to be hammed up.”

“Playwright Caroline Russell-King has discovered humor in the weirdest places and the strangest people. She does a skilled job of creating physical nonsense and writing one line zingers.”

How To Get a Copy

Rights

For community and academic performance rights: The Playwrights Guild of Canada
For professional production rights: Catherine Knights, Catalyst TCM

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Past Productions

Development History

From Here to Insanity was written under a Playwright-in-Residency at The Glenmore Dinner Theatre under the Artistic directorship of Zelda Dean.

• A. Becker
  Kaatz Lakeside Players (Lake Cauichan, BC)
• David Mulgrew
  Prince Albert Community Players (AB)
• Jean-Charles Rivard
  Theatre Lac Brome (QC)
• Joanne Gifford
  Ageless Players (Saskatoon, SK)
• Kevin Truscott
  Theatre North (Fort St. John, BC)
• Lori Kirchner
  CHAPS (Ponoka, AB)
• Merla Munroe
  The Golden Players (Golden, BC)
• Zelda Dean
  Glenmore Dinner Theatre (Calgary & tour AB)