“VALIUM IS MY favourite colour,” proclaims Diana, the protagonist of “Next to Normal”, an American rock musical. She suffers from delusions associated with bipolar disorder and has visions of her son, who died as an infant, as a teenager. Dan, Diana’s devoted but desperate husband, and Natalie, their overachieving but often neglected daughter, struggle to support her through grief, depression and a suicide attempt.
Vivian Cheung, who adapted the book of “Next to Normal” into Chinese, is bipolar herself and felt that many of the lyrics perfectly captured her experience of the condition. She was amazed to learn that the show’s creators, Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, expressed these feelings so effectively without being sufferers themselves. The play’s American director, Joseph Graves, has been a professor of theatre and film at Peking University for nearly two decades.
when he was growing up two terms were commonly used to describe those afflicted by psychiatric disorders:, “which means someone with a mind broken by pain or stress”.
This documentary about bipolar families should be gripping! What really piques my interest is how they managed in the 1st place to find these families with one parent from the North Pole, the other from the South! Must be relatively rare!
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