the brain
- COMPANY: Inkfish Productions VENUE: Little Angel Theatre DATES & TIMES: Sat 7 (6pm & 9pm) & Sun 8 (3pm & 6pm) PRICES: £12.50 / £10 conc
US based company Inkfish present “The Brain” - an experiment in puppet theatre exploring the life and science of Albert Einstein.
Travel through time and memory. We begin with Einstein’s death and then journey through fragments of memory - scenes from his life, and his most famous thought experiments that led to the Special and General Theories of Relativity. At the core of this production are Einstein’s letters to President Theodore Roosevelt which initiated the Manhattan Project and his last act - the signing of the Russell/Einstein Manifesto, a global call for nuclear disarmament. “The Brain” is our fantasy of Einstein taking back the bomb.
The production is performed in English with some Filipino, Japanese, and Swedish.
“I wish I had learned Einsteinian physics from Inkfish, the renowned dynamic duo performance artists Alissa Mello and Michael Kelly. In The Brain, their extremely theatrical methods use wildly diverse mixed media to explain the theory of relativity in a way any theatergoer can recognize. Inkfish provides science education through amazingly skilled and innovative video and puppetry theater arts.” (Larry Litt New York Theatre Wire Review April 18, 2008)
