1/6/2023 0 Comments Stage tiny piano![]() “I suffer with anxiety, it’s extreme,” she says. Sobler suggests that the psychological patterns behind the glass delusion are still with us. “How do we relate to it today? What does it represent, in our anxieties, today?” “I really took it as a jumping-off point: it’s definitely not a historically accurate depiction,” she caveats her answers by saying, but adds that she thought the image of having a glass piano inside you was a really interesting metaphor. ![]() Today, the delusion is approached as a mental health issue – and it was this which made Sobler convinced it would be a rich topic for a play. No-one really knows why – although there are very occasional modern instances of it recorded, most recently in 2015 by a psychiatrist in the Netherlands. ![]() Strangely, the glass delusion went into decline around the middle of the 19th Century, before almost completely vanishing. The belief he was made of glass was so powerful, he’s thought to have had a special suit of iron ribs fitted in his clothes to protect his delicate body, and wouldn’t allow people to touch him. Among the earliest – and most famous – sufferers was King Charles VI of France, who reigned from 1380 until his death in 1422, suffering from various bouts of ‘madness’.
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