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Tag: Byberry Mental Hospital

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MERLIN AND WART (Kevin Stackhouse): Theater in the service of social reform

Debra Miller November 9, 2015 No Comments

An intensely disturbing and impactful new play imagines the horrendous neglect and abuse suffered by two severely ill patients at Byberry Mental Hospital on the day of its closing in 1987.

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