Crazy Jane

Birds of Paradise Theatre presents Crazy Jane by Nicola McCartney Directed by Garry Robson

She dances. She dances alone. Always alone. Always twisting away just out of reach – ever beyond your touch, beyond your embrace, beyond your gaze.

Birds of Paradise Theatre Company present the world premier of Crazy Jane - the story of Jane Avril, star of the Moulin Rouge and immortalised in Toulouse Lautrec's iconic posters.

Jane invites you in to her life where she will tell you of her extraordinary journey from the back streets and brothels of Paris via the asylum wards of the Salpêtrière Asylum and on to the palace of women, the Moulin Rouge. Join her, Professor Charcot and his junior staff Drs Freud, Tourette, Jung and Alzheimer in the waltz of modern psychiatry, popularly known as The Fools Dance.

Crazy Jane is a spectacular theatre, dance event with an original razor sharp score by Scottish hip hop artists Hector Bizerk.