"A bear in the distance, perhaps" : Uncertainty and the Dramatisation of Mental Illness in Mark Haddon’s Polar Bears (2010)

• Main Author: Ayache, Solange
• Other Authors: Voix Anglophones : Littérature et Esthétique (VALE), Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut national supérieur du professorat et de l'éducation - Académie de Paris (INSPÉ Paris), Kasia Zaremba-Byrne (St Mary’s University), Dr. Michelle Paull (St Mary’s University)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: psychiatric realism; In-yer-face theatre; In-yer-head theatre; mental health; mad woman; uncertainty; contemporary British theatre; Mark Haddon; mind; mental space; mindscapes; bipolar personality disorder; theatre studies; drama studies; psychopoetics; stage realism; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature; Haddon; Kay; Arctic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04288077

International audience The British stage has been delving into the minds of women suffering from psychological disorders in a number of plays over the past twenty years. If Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (1999) and Anthony Neilson’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia (2004) are among the most well-known -...