BIPOLAR & THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. Act I tells the tale of how a casual mile-a-day pool lap swimmer became an English Channel swimmer in 9 months and her 18 hour zig-zag traverse from England to France. Act II tells the less glamorous story of how a Broadway-actor/record-holding-athlete wound up on an unforgiving psychiatric ward nine years later with a bipolar diagnosis and her rigorous journey back to a rich and fulfilling lif