Lucia Daramus

Fly, Madness, Fly! Lucia Daramus

Fly, Madness, Fly! by Lucia Daramus is a play about Aspergers Syndrome and Paranoid Schizophrenia. Irina, the main character in this play, is ill and has spent a lot of time in psychiatric hospitals. She has conversations with the voices in her head and with her visual hallucinations and tried to commit suicide, but was saved by the doctors in the psychiatric hospital. This play is about the relationships between Irina, her hallucinations, the doctors and other patients. It is about her dealing with her situation as an immigrant, and how to live with Aspergers Syndrome and Paranoid Schizophrenia. Fly, Madness, Fly! is a realistic and autobiographical play.