Dance review: Insane In The Brain

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button. Published Date: 20 October 2009 ON PAPER, the latest production by Swedish dance company Bounce sounds as crazy as its title – a streetdance version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Yet Insane In The Brain is an entertaining, exciting and – most surprisingly – sensitive treatment of mental illness. Closer to the Milos Forman film than Ken Kesey's novel, it uses innovative dance routines to capture the most salient points of Kesey's story about a controlling psychiatric nurse and her dubiously diagnosed patients – in particular the way Randle M cMurphy's healthy but slightly deviant mind is lost forever via a needless lobotomy. "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is such a touching story," says Bounce dancer Jennie Widegren. "To see... [read full story]                    

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