The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112465   Message #2600503
Posted By: M.Ted
30-Mar-09 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Bedlam Boys / Tom of Bedlam
Subject: RE: Origin of Bedlam Boys
You can see "Titticut Follies" now, Kendall--and it is worth seeing, not because of the show, but because it exposes the way that mental patients were treated.

The film Marat/Sade, though fictional, recreates a performance in a mental institution from about the time that such performances were common at Bedlam(and, though it is set in France, the actors are all British)--also, given the fact that Judy Collins recorded a medley of tunes from the show, it is of interest to "folk" folk--