In a Mess
The unique ' situations' project by the Dutch Worktheatre which won the 1977 RAI television prize. This series of highly-entertaining, interlocking playlets is based on the situations people encounter when they come into contact with psychiatry and was originally created by the WORKTHEATRE, a cooperative theatre group, in conjunction with patients in psychiatric institutions.
The programme focuses on the alienation and confusion created by constantly changing role-playing - amusingly depicted by a group of actors who have been happily swapping roles for years. Running through the alienation is the thread of the child-parent, superior-subordinate, doctor-patient relationships which is gradually unravelled into a lucid recovery.
The Worktheatre group offer no ready-made solutions but their questions are seriously posed with insight and humour.
Written and directed by THUS CHANOWSKI for NOS