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Ludovic Ondiviela and his team of collaborators for Cassandra , his minute work about mental illness, have explained their intentions very clearly in programme notes, interviews and blogs. The title, referring to the legendary Greek prophetess of doom, has been coined by psychiatrists as a term for psychosis — the Cassandra syndrome or complex.

The affected person has visions and beliefs that others take for delusions. They set out to show through dance and music the experience of a modern-day Cassandra or Giselle and the effect her mental condition has on her family and colleagues. So Ondiviela has to find a way of revealing how and why she comes to be sectioned and diagnosed as psychotic.

Olivia Cowley, replacing injured Lauren Cuthbertson, is instantly appealing as vulnerable Cassandra.

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Coltishly slender and supple, with an expressively wistful face, she puts up no barriers between herself and the audience. She has a boyfriend, Thomas Whitehead, who appears to love her. We have been alerted from the start by crackling video projections and distorted sounds that all will not be well. Silvera appears as Ancient Cassandra, costumed like a s Hollywood priestess, singing unintelligibly.

Still in the dark, I was grasping for clues. Mother rings for help, while scene changes shift between call-centre business going on as usual, and hospital screens closing in on Cassandra. Recorded voices diagnose Cassandra as psychotic. Galeazzi worries down below, wringing her hands and reaching out for help. Kay is very touching as the brother, devastated by his inability to help his sister.

She is lost to her family and lover, but how should we react to her plight?