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9th November 2015
Critical Review: Merlin and Wart (Kevin Stackhouse): Theater in the service of social reform
Intense and disturbing, MERLIN AND WART, a new three-act play written, produced, and directed by Kevin Stackhouse, brings dramatic focus to the deplorable conditions at Philadelphia’s Byberry Mental Hospital on the day of its closing in 1987, imagining the irreversible effects that the atrocious abuse and neglect at the derelict institution had on the people it was supposed to help. The powerful two-hander is a stirring example of theater in the service of social reform, with tour-de-force perfo