EdFringe Review #24: Hysterical

★★★★☆ - Timely

A whirlwind time-travelling trawl through the history of five “mad” women and the history teacher who awakened their ghosts, koi collective’s Hysterical speaks truth to hysteria, and the many ways ordinary women have been maligned for stepping out of the narrowly defined boundaries society has erected for them.

Penned by Sally Macalister, Hysterical opens with five women in vaguely-historical garb welcoming the audience in. They are interrupted by an ostensible latecomer to the production, Jenny, whom they haul up onstage to sit in a chair placed there for the purpose. They discover that she is a history teacher, and proceed to each tell their stories, with Jenny as the target audience.

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