Name: The Asylum Workshop
Start: 2023-06-14T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-06-24T21:30:00+01:00
Location: TU Dublin, East Quad

The Asylum Workshop

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The Asylum Workshop, Fragments from the archive of the institution once known as the “Lunatic Asylum”.

TU Dublin, East Quad

<h1>TU Dublin Conservatoire presents</h1><h3>The Asylum Workshop</h3>Fragments from the archive of the institution once known as the “Lunatic Asylum”, GrangegormanA documentary drama by Colin MurphyWith the final-year Drama students of the TU Dublin ConservatoireDirected by Peter McDermottSupported by Grangegorman Histories<h3>About</h3>Why did Ireland historically have a hugely disproportionate number of institutionalised psychiatricpatients compared to other countries globally?How do we confront a difficult past that took place all around us as we try to forge a new future?The Asylum Workshop is a new documentary play by playwright Colin Murphy (The Treaty, A Day inMay, Inside the GPO, Bailed Out!) about the history of the Grangegorman mental hospital in Dublin’snorth inner city. Grangegorman is now home to the beautiful, open campus of the new Technological University Dublin. Yet, for nearly 200 years, it was a formidable institution behind stone walls: an aspirationalplace of asylum and the treatment of mental illness, but also a place of medical mistreatment andtraumatic incarceration.Drawing on unique access to the hospital archives, The Asylum Workshop weaves together verbatimletters and testaments from patients and families, reports from doctors and nurses, and expertanalysis from historians and psychiatrists. Murphy frames these materials as questions about therelationship between the hospital and Irish society’s values and priorities in the 20th century. Writtenfor the current final-year students of the B.A. (Hons) in Drama (Performance) at TU DublinConservatoire, the play also juxtaposes the site’s complicated past as a hospital treating mentalillness and its present incarnation as a university pursuing knowledge.Don’t miss this special event by Ireland’s foremost writer of documentary theatre.<h3>Schedule </h3>Wed 14th June to Sat 17th June, 7.30pm and Sat matinee 17th June, 2pm Tues 20th June to Sat 24th June, 7.30pm and Sat matinee 24th June, 2pm Tickets €20.00 Full and €15.00 Concession (Students/OAPS). TU Dublin Black Box Theatre East Quad, Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7 Grangegorman Histories is a public history project of Dublin City Council, Grangegorman Development Agency, Health Service Executive, Local Communities, National Archives, Royal Irish Academy and TU Dublin.

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