If the antipsychiatrists are sometimes guilty, like the mad, of a ‘great refusal of human connection’, of valuing powers ‘not to be qualified or restricted by the co-ordinate existence of any fellow man’, then the theatrical representation of madness would seem to be the opposite. If madness, whatever else it is, is a breakdown in sociability, is a homelessness – madness is when you can’t find anyone who can stand you – then the theatre re-presents, re-circulates, the experiences of the mad among their fellow men and women.
