William Lonsdale is chained to the wall of a filthy room in the "incurables wing" in London's infamous Bedlam at the turn of the 19th century. He doesn't know how he got there or if he will ever get out. He tells his life story to his wretch of a cellmate, reflects on the ephemeral nature of happiness and diverts himself with word games ? "I don't have the luxury of going out of my mind, I can only go into it." He is in search of the perfect word that will sum up his situation; a word that will explain everything.This adept acclaimed adaptation takes the skeleton of Charlotte Randall's compelling novel and gives it theatrical flesh.
It is the beginning of the nineteenth centyr. There is a madman on the thorne of Englnad, the King f GFrance has had his head cut off, there is a megalomaniac running around calling himself Napoleon and Captain Cook has recently returned with maps of lands at the very endsof the earth.
The sparkling and witty dialogue of Charlotte Randall