Alex Ritson

Many years ago, that rock out there was a true hazard for ships.

There's definitely a shipwreck out there that these shoes have come from.

If that is the case, attention will undoubtedly turn to who actually made the mysterious footwear.

Some are suggesting online the source may be an Italian shoemaker, linked possibly to a downed ship from the 19th century.

Thomas Morgan.

In 1978, Italy passed a radical law to close state-run asylums, making it the first country in the world to do so.

The law made way for community-based treatment of people with mental disorders and learning difficulties...

rather than the social segregation that they'd faced beforehand.

More than 50 years on, a theatre company in Rome is continuing to embrace that ethos, training actors with psychiatric problems and learning disabilities to perform classic Italian plays.

The BBC's Isabella Jewell went to see one of their performances in London.

But the theatre company on stage is far from a traditional one.

It's called the Teatro Patologico, literally the pathological theatre, and all the actors have learning difficulties or mental health problems, ranging from depression to anorexia.

In many places, there is still a stigma attached to people with mental disorders and learning difficulties.

But by putting these actors on stage, the audience is encouraged to celebrate their talents.

And they've taken their plays across the world.

The Teatro Patologico have taken on many classics, from Pinocchio to Medea, but this play, A Journey from Darkness to Light, has particular resonance for its lead actor, Paolo Vasselli.

That report by Isabella Jewell.

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