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Name: Edward Einhorn
Date: 2005-12-14 19:33:32
Email: utc61@aol.com
Message:
I wanted to make you aware of a festival of plays about neurological conditions:
NEUROfest
January 5 -29
Theater 5
311 West 43rd Street, 5th floor
Tickets: $15, 212-352-3101 or www.theatermania.com
http://www.untitledtheater.com/NEUROfest.html
Untitled Theater Company #61 explores the nexus of science and art in NEUROfest, the first-ever theater festival dedicated to neurological conditions
A collection of theater artists from around the country will present work inspired by various neurological conditions, including:
Amnesia (Korsakov's Syndrome),
Aphasia,
Autism,
Capgras Syndrome,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD),
Dementia,
Meniere’s Disease,
Synesthesia, and
Tourette’s Syndrome
CJD
Written and Directed by James Jordan
The Boondogglers
Condition dealt with: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (a relative of Mad Cow)
A multimedia one man show written and performed by a neurologist about his experience with a patient with CJD, augmented with live music performance.
IMPOSTERS
by Justin Warner
Directed by Ari Laura Keith
Glass House Productions
Condition dealt with: Capgras syndrome
Inspired by the rare neurological condition Capgras' Syndrome, IMPOSTORS is a quirky, funny, heartfelt exploration of the contradictions and distortions that hold all families together. After a brain injury, a son believes his parents have been replaced with exact duplicates of themselves, triggering a series of events that threatens to unravel the entire family. IMPOSTORS won the Kennedy Center-ACTF playwriting contest for the Mid-Atlantic region, and was also a finalist for the Princess Grace Award. IMPOSTORS will run simultaneously with NEUROfest at the Union Theatre in London.
STRANGERS and LINGUISH
Written and directed by Edward Einhorn
Untitled Theater Co. #61
Conditions dealt with: Amnesia (Korsakov's Syndrome) and Aphasia
LINGUISH posits a disease which causes aphasia, the neurological disorder that takes away one's ability to use language. Four relative strangers are among the first to be affected, and are thrown together in quarantine. As the disease affects them, they are forced to try to find new ways to communicate. In STRANGERS a man and a woman are in what seems to be a doctor's waiting room. Is it? If so, what's wrong?
SYNDROME
by Kirk Wood Bromley
Performed and directed by Timothy McCowen Reynolds
Inverse Theater Company
Condition dealt with: Tourette’s
Syndrome is a play about a man sitting in his room attempting to muster the courage to meet his parents for dinner. We quickly discover that there are reasons for his anxiety, stemming from his submission to a "spectrum of psychological disorders" that have taken over his mind. Nothing, however, is really wrong with him.
TABULA RASA
Words by Robert Lawson, Music by Henry Akona
Directed by Henry Akona
Music Direction by Ekaterina Stanislavskaya
High Fidelity Theater
Condition dealt with: Autism
An opera featuring interlinked stories of two children, both lost in the woods. One, a 19th century tale inspired by stories of the Wild Boy of Aveyron and other children who grew up in the wild. The other, the 21st century tale of a young girl lost in the forest of mood altering medications. Tabula Rasa examines the effects of nature and nurture, and the fundamental meaning of language and human relationships.
WELCOME TO TOURETTAVILLE!
by Jonathan Ospa, June Rachelson-Ospa, and Daniel Neiden
Music by Jody Gray, Doug Katsaros and Daniel Neiden
Directed by Daniel Neiden
Condition dealt with: Tourette's Syndrome
A musical inspired by a young boy's dreamworld where 4 aliens, Tick, Blinky, Screamer, and the guru of all Tourettians, The Big Bleeper, befriend and inspire him toward self-acceptance. The musical was co-written by June Rachelson-Ospa and her 7 year old son Jonny Ospa.
NEUROshorts
(NEUROshorts is one entire evening)
THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A ROBOT
by Edward Einhorn
Directed by Barry Weil
Evolve Theater Company
Condition dealt with: Autism (Aspergers)
A fairy tale set on another planet, this is a Pinnochio story in reverse, about a child who grows up in a robot country and just wants to be a robot like everyone else.
VESTIBULAR
by: Kelly R. Haydon
Directed by: Jolie Tong
Monkey Business Productions
Length: 20 minutes
Condition dealt with: Meniere's disease
As vertigo routinely attacks a former dancer stricken with Meniere's Disease, an informal conversation with his nurse turns into a revelation that challenges the idea of dependency as a passive force
THE TASTE OF BLUE
by Alexandra Edwards
Directed by Julia Martin
The Transformative Theater Company
Conditions dealt with: Synesthesia, Eidetic memory
The sound of the saxophone is blue. The letter O is blue. And blue tastes good. A woman describes her world, in which every sense calls up another. When the world turns gray, she must turn to her own imaginary landscape, filled with memories, to find something delicious.
DOCTORS JANE AND ALEXANDER
by Edward Einhorn
Directed by Ian Hill
GeminiCollisionWorks
Condition dealt with: Dementia
A found text plays about a psychologist now suffering from dementia, and her father, the discoverer of the Rh factor.
Plus:
For One Night Only!
CINCINATTI
by Don Nigro
Directed by John Clancy
Theater Company: Clancy Productions
Condition dealt with: Brain tumors
A one woman show by Nancy Walsh, a portrait of madness—originally performed after the removal of a brain tumor from Nancy Walsh, allowing her to only say things she had already memorized. Done in conjunction with a seminar.
Name: spaz
Date: 2005-12-08 05:51:06
Email:
Message:
oi oi to dellers and cobbers!!!! Going jet boating tomorrow: woo woo!!
Name: dellers & cobbers
Date: 2005-12-07 20:13:08
Email: mind it
Message:
oi oi.
Name: PAul
Date: 2005-12-07 09:15:50
Email: P@trb
Message:
Hello to all TRB chatters from Queenstown, New Zealand - capital of extreme adventure activities. Just arrived today, hoping to have some fun with gravity tomorrow. And what a beautiful place this country is too....
Name: Ghrama
Date: 2005-11-30 07:28:42
Email: g@trb.co.uk
Message:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4479628.stm <---- Let's see some evidence!
Name: Graham
Date: 2005-11-27 23:36:24
Email: Graham@theleftfoot.com
Message:
Hey Syed. Just wondering how thing's are in Chicago with you? How're the music and medical careers going? I've still gotta get that compilation record that you're on. I was just chatting with Darren earlier today (he's got the two most recent tracks on TRB) and wondering what's the best way to get your music heard. Are those MP3 download sites good? Did you send loads of demos to different labels?
Name: Graham
Date: 2005-11-18 00:30:35
Email: Graham@iseesounds.com
Message:
Hey Son! Hola! How are you? We thought about moving to Thailand tonight because houses are just too expensive here in the UK of A. Somewhere near the Silk Bar would be nice. Hey All! Does anyone else know of the phenomena of Synesthesia? Professor Ramachandran has said something recently about the possibility that synesthesia could provide a window to all creative thought. If synesthesia is due to a physiological cross-wiring in the brain, then isn't all creative/abstract thought the same? The connection between two previously unrelated bits of data, as in a poem relating a person's beauty to a summer's day, could be similar neurophysiologically to suggesting that a number has a certain colour or a smell has a certain shape. It is also suggested that the link between synesthesia and creativity could account for the genetic mutation that may cause synesthesia having survived to this date. What do you reckon?
Name: son
Date: 2005-11-15 03:02:40
Email: warisear@hotmail.com
Message:
Ciao :)Come lei č? I miss you all..So I just greeting
Name: The Brighton Loungers
Date: 2005-11-09 12:51:48
Email: gooddaytoyou@gooddaytoyou
Message:
Hey Guys! Sounds like you're having a great time. Dammit, I wish we were with you too. But it's a nice crisp sunny day here in the south of England. I ought to go outside and wallow in it, really. Thanks for the congrats. We're definitely planning to stay in Brighton if commuting doesn't maim me. Maybe even gonna look at house prices (maybe). Anyway, if you guys pass a sheepshed/newsagents that sells the Scientific American Mind magazine, check the letters page for correspondance from me and a little TRB plug. Your name is in there, Paul. It was a letter I wrote to them and I totally forgot I wrote it until I read it and thought it looked familiar. Have a great trip!!!
Name: The Nullarbor Rangers
Date: 2005-11-09 05:15:06
Email: g'day@g'day
Message:
Hello! We've arrived in paradise in Esperance WA after a 2000km journey across the Nullarbor Plain. So HARDCORE! Having a lovely time, wish you all were here. And Gra, congrats on le job - hope you're still gonna stay in brighton though....
Name: Alison (not tassie Al< Brighton AL)
Date: 2005-11-04 08:50:50
Email:
Message:
I would like to state that Graham has finally cooked me the thai green curry he has been promising for over three years!! And it was tasty! Life in Tassie sounds great, our visit seems like the distant past now... falling in love? I want to hear more about that!
Name: alison
Date: 2005-11-04 05:55:23
Email: jubboo@hotmail.com
Message:
oh ... and that comfy bed has now been donated to Big and replaced with an even comfier one! missed out paul!
Name: alison
Date: 2005-11-04 05:54:13
Email: jubboo@hotmail.com
Message:
hey graham ... congrats on the psych rotation ... uncle pat will be proud ... he and sheila are heading my way early next year ... winter not too bad and now spring is bloody gorgeous ... thought the wind may take me out of kansas last night though! kids are stunning as usual ... nothing's changed on that front ... mum's great ... heading down here for a couple of weeks before Chrissy in Melb with the grandkids ... job here is working out well and i've also fallen in love (aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!) aint life grand ... think im teleporting somewhere else on the 8th or id be there ... love to alison ...
Name: Graham
Date: 2005-11-01 10:56:13
Email: Graham@therightbrain.co.uk
Message:
Hey Alison! Yeah, that was an oversight. And that was a really comfy bed too! I'm really good. Life is going really well. I've just been accepted for a 3 year rotation in Psychiatry at St Georges Hospital in London. The rotation covers towns near to Brighton so we're going to do our best to stay in our current place and I'll commute a little. Nice to have a plan though. At the moment I'm locuming, being a part-timer and trying to make some music. Has it been a cold winter in Taz? Would love to teleport ourselves back over there to visit you. How are the kids? I haven't heard from Sandra in a while, though I've emailed her a couple of times. Hey, you should teleport yourself over to Brighton for the 8th December when we're taking over a local venue for a night of quality electronic laptop music and visuals. It's gonna rock!
Name: alison
Date: 2005-10-31 00:28:32
Email: jubboo@hotmail.com
Message:
Paul - I can't believe you came to Tas and Graham didn't put you in touch with me for a free bed! Glad you enjoyed it though.
How's things cuz?????
Name: Graham
Date: 2005-10-18 11:18:38
Email: Graham@Taz-mania.co.uk
Message:
Hey P+A! Taz is great ain't it. More than we expected, but we only knew it from the cartoon. Eat some nice cakes in St Kilda! It's got a nice little Brighton-esque vibe to it we reckon. Hey Son! King of the Loves is totally welcome! How is life in Turkey???
Name: Paul
Date: 2005-10-18 09:57:50
Email: paul@australia
Message:
Just got back from Tasmania. Lovely place, it is. And hence onward to the Great Ocean Road. But we're in St kilda tonight.
Name: Ann et Paul
Date: 2005-10-08 13:51:35
Email: ozziebuggers@everythingozzie.com .au
Message:
graham - you obviously took the inland route to melbourne - shame on you. The "prom" is Wilson's promontary which is amazing natural place. Our tent almost blew away with gale force winds but that was subsidised by seeing natural wombats, emus and kanga's that were not touched by our human hand. Oi Oi up for it in melbourne though! woo woo
Name: Son
Date: 2005-10-07 15:24:15
Email: warisear@hotmail.com
Message:
Hello Graham :) I know King of the love's. Amm... Actually i told him about your web... So sorry that i didn't to tell you brfore. He is a special person for me ... I went Silkbar when i have party and when i go there i feel think about you and Alison :):) hope to see you soon :)
Name: king of the love's
Date: 2005-10-06 17:54:19
Email:
Message:
hi graham ı m from turkey ı m meet their.ı m here because of son.:)u?
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