Synopsis

Synopsis

A Clown, unable to make people laugh, is the creator of an asylum where the patients are fed with pills that make them become crazy on purpose.
Two nurses, Artemis and Diana, who give the pills to the patients and help them not to break the several rules invented by the Clown, run the asylum.
The patients are very diverse and they developed different diagnosis, associated with human inner struggle, society, love and taboos.
Each patient has, everyday, the possibility to express their thoughts for a short amount of time, when that time is over or if they break the rules, the clown stop them through a chess board, that connect all of them to him. After the clown picks up a chess, the patient would automatically froze for few seconds. The Asylum is a parallel society for outsiders, where the madness and the inner struggle of the individuals is “stabilized’ instead of being cured.
The play explores the limits of madness creating a society regulated by rules and medicines, overlooking at the negative and positive outcomes that this “collection of Humans” can bring up.