The hospital at the time of the revolution
By: Caryl Churchill
Contributors: Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Copyright date: 2015
Description: Caryl Churchill's short play 'The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution' is based on Frantz Fanon's classic analysis of colonialism and decolonization, 'The Wretched of the Earth'. The play is set in the hospital at Blida-Joinville, Algeria, in about 1956, during the country's struggle for independence from French colonial rule. Frantz Fanon is head of the psychiatric department at the hospital, treating both oppressed and oppressor. A civil servant presents his psychologically disturbed daughter to the hospital for assessment and insists on her admittance. An inspector demands treatment for his helpless violence against his own family. And three in-patient revolutionaries are delusional and paranoid.