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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
 
[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1974.
 
[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1974.
 
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Revision as of 06:14, 28 July 2015

The Happiness Cage is a 1970 play by American playwright Dennis J. Reardon (1944- ) [1].

Synopsis

Set in 1960s USA, patients in a Vietnam War veterans hospital are induced to participate in a programme of experimental brain implantation designed to achieve conformable neurological happiness. One resists, preferring the limitations with his own identity to the technologically achievable bliss. [2]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

PACT theatre programme, 1974.

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