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October 19, 2016
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Revisiting the past at Tranquille on the Lake Deep within the darkness, amid the maze of the underground passageways, The Disordered Mind is a haunting tale about institutional cycles and a fractured state of mind deep within the tunnels at Tranquille Farm Fresh. The people who lived and worked at Tranquille especially fascinate Andrew G. Cooper, playwright and director. The research has been endlessly fascinating— “haunting in nature”. His major resources came from RSOE - fr ear jan 25 2012.indd 1 Wayne R Norton’s “A Whole Little City By Itself: Tranquille and Tuberculosis”, The Royal BC Museum in Victoria, but it was conversations with people who lived on the property where he gained valuable and personalized insights. The Tranquillian Soldier, was Chimera Theatre’s first collaboration with Tranquille Tunnel Tours. Written by Mackenzie Cassel, the 2014 production Photo: Gamble Visuals was set in 1917 and focused on a lieutenant in need of treatment and a nurse in training who build off of research done for the collective memories are fond and deranged or is the institution driving her mad? Two doctors’ conheartfelt. meet at the Tranquille previous year. “There is so much to write Audience members are transflicting medical ideologies has Tuberculosis Sanatorium. The following year, Andrew about—it opened in 1908, it was ported to the Tranquille institution the patient trapped in the middle penned Crossroads, which a tuberculosis sanatorium and a in 1963. The interactive theatre without a hope to find her way focused on the closure of the sana- mental facility, many lives had experience has audience mem- back to sanity. Annette Macleod, co-owner of torium after more than fifty years been lived out there.” During his bers following the characters as months of research, Andrew met the story unfolds throughout the Tranquille Farm Fresh, loves the of service. As he approached The with a number of individuals who tunnels and into the mind of a stories shared within the tunnels. Disordered Mind, he was able to lived out there as children. The disturbed mental patient. Is she - continued on page 2
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