Conversation with Vitor Pordeus about theatre as healing in Brazil

Listen to community psychiatrist Vitor Pordeus and I [Jakob Jakobsen] in conversation. Vitor, was visiting Denmark due to his interest in the "mad king" Hamlet, who he has portrayed in his street theatre. An actor since he was 9 and a physician since he was 24, Vitor works in Brazil with popular theatre as a means of healing former patients and other survivors. He believes that the wounded are the most apt healers. Vitor has founded the Madness Hotel and Spa, and the People's University for Art and Science inside the Engenho de Dentro Asylum, where the famous psychiatrist Nise da Silveira used to work.