By Anthony Neilson. Adelaide Uni Theatre Guild. Little Theatre, University of Adelaide. May 4 – 14, 2023
The Adelaide University Theatre Guild and director Thomas Filsell are to be congratulated for mounting The Wonderful World of Dissocia, a play highlighting mental illness, what it feels like to be mentally ill, and what it feels like when someone you love is mentally ill.
Anthony Neilson’s 2004 drama about dissociative identity disorder was partially created while Neilson was working with a theatre group. It toys with the idea that mental illness is a world for the person who has it. It was then rewritten by a theatre company collaborating with Neilson.