As he alights from his train, Ellie (Felicity Huxley-Miners) ‘introduces’ herself, thinking he’s going to take his own life. Having just found that his best friend has slept with his girlfriend, he’s not sure about what he thinks and feels apart from the immediate anger at this turn of events. ![]() In Felicity Huxley-Miners’ In The Shadow Of The Mountain, we see how mental health affects one young couple and the difficulty of acknowledging ‘ the elephant in the rooom’. With regards to mental health among young people, this is still ‘virgin territory’ theatrically speaking, though there are numerous articles nowadays pointing to how young men are at the risk of suicide and how social media exacerbates the pressure on teenage girls. ![]() In recent years there have been more plays that deal with mental health and dementia in particular.
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