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

Incognito: Nick Payne Tackles Neuroscience in New Play

A new play about neuroscience by Nick Payne will premiere at the HighTide festival in Suffolk in 2014. Payne, who enjoyed success with Constellations, has written Incognito for the festival which takes place in Halseworth between 10-19 April. According to the Guardian, Incognito has a similarly complex structure to Constellations and weaves several stories, including a plot about the autopsy in which Einstein’s brain was removed and dissected in 1955.

Incognito will be in preview at Theatre Live Newcastle between 3-5 April and will also be performed at the North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford between 6-10 May 2014.