The Lunatic

The Lunatic was performed at in Manchester in July, and at C Venues between 4 and 30 August 1999 as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

To date, it's my last play to go to the festival, and I was lucky/stupid enough to be there for the whole four week run this time. It was an interesting experience, and one that I'd like to do again. Only with more planning and money.

The Lunatic is also very much a product of the last century (how many people get to say that?) and in particular the apocalyptic fears that the end of the twentieth century seemed to promote. Because of that, it's already very dated, but serves as a pretty good document of what I was thinking at the time.

It was also inspired deeply by the writings of Desmond Morris - particularly The Human Zoo - but I don't feel like it did the book much justice, and its ideas might get recycled at a later stage.

The fact that we're all still here, and we didn't even have much trouble from the Millennium Bug, means that it will never be performed again, perhaps thankfully.