The symptoms of mental illness can be misconstrued as bad behaviour, sloppy attendance and poor grades. If you knew what those suffering from mental illness were going through, you wouldn’t laugh…so we got Michael’s classmates to help confirm how unfunny it is.
We didn’t tell them what he’d be talking about, so they’re all genuine reactions from the first take.
Film directed by Tony Barry at Sonny London.
We worked with John O'Driscoll and co-wrote an adaptation of Stand Up Kid for a fringe theatre show. The playscript is below, although I’m not expecting anyone to actually read it all.