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The Happiness Cage is a 1970 play by American playwright Dennis J. Reardon (1944- ) [1].
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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]
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Performance history in South Africa
1974: Staged by PACT, directed by Ken Leach, with Michael McCabe (Reese),
Sources
PACT theatre programme, 1974.
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