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?
“On Ego is the kind of show that makes much other theatre look shallow. Science and emotion meld so successfully that you leave the theatre feeling less like a bundle of neurons than a king of infinite space.”
Director: Michael Hill
Design: Michael Hill & TheimaGen
Lighting : Nic Mollison
Composer: Peter Nielsen
Video: Justin McGuinness
Cast: Starring Patrick Frost, Michael Hill and Ksenja Logos
Alex is teleported from a lecture hall to a restaurant to celebrate his wedding anniversary with his wife. But the teleportation demonstration goes wrong and now there is two of him. How can two people live one life? Multimedia-artists TheimaGen and director Michael Hill join forces to tell the intriguing story of a neuroscientist who is faced with a terrible choice.
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? Techno-artists TheimaGen and director Michael Hill join forces to bring you this beautiful contemplation on love, identity and what it is to be human.
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