The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
Theatrical research
Inspired by the book written by the renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, Peter Brook has created a theatrical event or “a theatrical research” as he calls it – including a series of meetings between doctors and their patients.
Each scene provides the audience with a different and unusual neurological case and confronts us with the amazing, exciting and strange phenomenon which can take place in our human mind such as autism, visual agnosia, Toret syndrome and others.
Among the cases which the play portrays are a man who sees only half of what is in front of him and therefore shaves only half of his face, a man who cannot recognize objects by name because he only sees their shape, the man who cannot find the words in his mother tongue and the man who thought his wife is a hat.
The play exposes these people revealing the pain and psychological complexities which these unique syndromes inflict upon them.
Duration: About 1 hour and 15 minutes (without intermission)
Actors
Dudu Ben-Ze’ev, Yoav Hyman, Shachar Netz, Itay Shor
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"Fascinating Execution"
Read the review about the show at "midnighteast"
