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Takin' Over The Asylum, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

"Inspired is when you think you can do anything," says one character in Donna Franceschild's psychiatric ward-set play adapted from her 1994 TV drama.

"Manic is when you know it." Such a bold statement becomes a kind of manifesto for this moving, funny and heart-breakingly pertinent story about how a hospital radio station awakens damaged residents from TV-watching torpor.

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