2401 Objects (Oberon Modern Plays) - Softcover

Analogue; Hetherington, Lewis; Barker, Hannah; Jarvis, Liam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849431957 ISBN 13: 9781849431958

Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

2011 Fringe First Award Winner

"Henry, are you awake?”

Henry lives each day like the last. Exactly like the last. Every day, he tries to make sense of the world around him; the girl sitting on the lawn outside his window, the pages of a book filled with the same sentence, the 80 year old man looking at him in the mirror.

In 2009 Patient H.M.’s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400,000 people, cut into carefully preserved slices: manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book.

In 1953 Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery without any recollection of the last two years of his life or the ability to form new memories.

In 1935 nine-year old Henry is knocked over by a bike, leaving him unconscious for five minutes.

Following Analogue's critically acclaimed Mile End and Beachy Head and inspired by the world’s most important neuroscientific case-study, 2401 Objects tells the remarkable story of a man who could no longer remember, but who has proven impossible to forget.

About this title

About the Authors

Analogue is an on-going collaboration between co-directors Hannah Barker & Liam Jarvis, Producer Ric Watts, Production Manager Helen Mugridge and Associate Artist Lewis Hetherington. They also work with an ever-expanding pool of collaborators from fields as diverse as neuroscience, social-psychology, pervasive media, computer aided modelling, movement, performance, scenography and playwrighting.

Hannah Barker is Co-Artistic Director and co-founder of Analogue and also works as a journalist and education facilitator. Hannah has written, directed and performed at the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe festivals, the Pulse festival and in London at the Battersea Arts Centre, the National Theatre Studio, The Young Vic and The Hackney Empire.

Liam Jarvis is a theatre-maker, practitioner-researcher, and Reader in Theatre and Performance at Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849431957
• ISBN 13: 9781849431958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72