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 By Mick Gordon Inspired by Into The Silent Land by Paul Broks Premiered Soho Theatre London December 2005 HOW DOES THE BRAIN CREATE A SENSE OF SELF? What are we? Skin, bone and a hundred billion brain cells? Or is there something more? How does the conscious "you" clamber from the numb darkness of the brain box out into a world of people and places, pleasure and pain, love and loss? A beautiful contemplation on love, identity and what it is to be human. REVIEW: Mick Gordon and Paul Broks have written a play, an experiment and a meditation. Alex (Elliot Levey) is a neurology lecturer; his wife, Alice (Kate Miles), develops a brain tumour. Eventually, she doesn't recognise him – which means she's not “her” any more. So, what is identity? What is the self? Is there an ego within?... MORE REVIEW: Hamlet, traumatised by his family’s misdemeanours, described men as a “quintessence of dust”. Some 350 years on, Francis Crick decided this was much too poetic: we are, concluded the scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA, a bundle of neurons. Both figures cast their shadow over On Ego... MORE PARTNERS: Development funded by Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation. Production supported by Arts Council London. Presented in association with Soho Theatre London. Published by Oberon Books |
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