The Wonderful World of Dissocia

The Wonderful World of Dissocia is a play written and directed by Anthony Neilson about a young woman suffering from dissociative disorder.

The idea was originally workshopped with a group of students at LAMDA in 2002 but was later re-written and produced for the Glasgow's Tron Theatre at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2004.

[4] The United States première was at the Profiles Theater, North Broadway Street, Chicago, on 26 March 2009.

[8] The play is in two contrasting acts, with the first a vivid recreation of Lisa's dream-like imaginary life, "full of colour and fun", and the second a bleak, black-and-white presentation of the hospital ward in which she is receiving treatment; because of the contrast we see the prospect of Lisa's return to wellness as rather unattractive.

In this way the play attempts to give the audience a notion of how the condition affects the sufferer and offers an alternative view of conventional treatments.