ISBN: 0413771415 9780413771414

Category: Drama / General

Page count: 41

<p>A new work from Peter Brook - the contemporary theatre's greatest inventor<br><br><br><br><br>Whatever the social and national barriers, we all have a brain and we think we know it. But, the moment we go inside, we find we are on another planet.<br>Using Oliver Sacks' neurological study The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat as its inspiration, The Man Who offers a series of fascinating Doctor/Patient scenarios that examine our attempts to understand the workings of the brain. In turn, these case studies become Brook's starting point in his search for a new theatre form.<br>"Peter Brook is not only one of the truly outstanding directors of our time, he is also, undoubtedly, the only one whose skill as a writer equals his genius as a practitioner of the theatre" - Martin Esslin</p>