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A Payne In The Head Draws To An End

There’s s now only one week left to catch neuroscience drama Incognito at London’s Bush Theatre before it closes on 21st June. A fundraising gala performance on Thursday 19th June will conclude with a Q&A session with the writer Nick Payne.

Meanwhile, the first details of the USA premiere of Payne’s play Constellations are beginning to emerge. The production will preview from 16th December 2014 and open at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway on 13th January 2015.

Michael Longhurst (who also directed the Royal Court production in London in 2012) will direct Jake Gyllenhaal as Roland in Payne’s one act play about the relationship between a physicist and a beekeeper which draws on ideas from multiverse theories.

Read more about Incognito and Constellations on ScienceCentreStage

Paul Hickey and Amelia Lowdell in Incognito by Nick Payne

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Nick Payne’s Incognito Dates for London and Newcastle

The Bush Theatre in London has announced that Nick Payne’s new play Incognito will form part of its 2014 season. Joe Murphy will direct the production which runs between 14 May and 21 June 2014, after premiering at the High Tide Festival in April.

In addition to featuring a plot about the theft of Einstein’s brain during his autopsy in 1955, Incognito also deals with Henry M, whose neurosurgery for epilepsy in 1957 permitted new insights into the nature of memory. A third theme about a modern day neuropsychologist facing the breakdown of her marriage completes a trio of interwoven tales.

There will also be previews of Incognito at the Live Theatre in Newcastle 3-5 April 2014 followed by a full production later the same month.

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