The theatre script MAD FRED was written by veteran Western Australian playwright Hellie Turner and staged at Curtin University in 2013. The playwright’s intent when developing MAD FRED was to provide a well-researched ‘popularist’ (therefore palatable) means of exposing this historical figure to a more general contemporary populace—at the same time serving as an accessible reminder of a rather colorful phase in our social history. The central character of the script is the enigmatic real l...