drive mad

Children covered in armor drive “Mad Max”-style cars to combat the forces of darkness, while their school turns into a hellscape of warfare and fire.

The play is an essay on the artistocracy of the insane: Whom the gods wish to embrace, they first drive mad.

They drive mad horses in Giridih—animals that become hysterical as soon as the dusk falls and the countryside blazes with the fires of the great coke ovens.

The walls were decorated with prints, much-faded photographs, stuffed birds, heads of deer and a quaint collection of old-fashioned guns, pistols and bayonets, but all arranged with an exactness and taste that would drive mad the modern artistic decorator.

Battened hatches imprison below a regiment of souls, some suffering the torments of stomachs in open rebellion, others of heads swollen, while others lose entire control of an army of nerves that center near and drive mad the brain.