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Posted by admin on March 20, 2009
Chekhov Lizardbrain
Friday, October 10, 2008; by: Duncan Pflaster
Philadelphia's Pig Iron Theater Company returns to New York with Chekhov Lizardbrain- a hilarious and brilliant deconstruction of Chekhovian theatrical tropes and of the workings of the human brain. Taking inspiration from autistic author and teacher Temple Grandin's book Animals in Translation, the play takes Paul Maclean's Triune Brain Theory as its central motif- there is the lizard brain, which handles autonomic bits such as breathing...