“Incognito”, from the English playwright Nick Payne, is directed by Marcelo Moncarz and starring Cecilia Cosero, Tom Cl, Mateo Chiarino and Anna Fantoni, who play 19 characters. It can be seen in Itaca, Mondays at 20.30.
From two real fascinating stories around the brain, Albert Einstein and that of Henry Gustav Molaison, “Incognito” It offers a trip to remote places of the human mind, to that unfathomable underworld of short and long term memory, to the interstices of the brain and its capricious and random functioning, or its failures.
The work of the British playwright Nick Payne Part of a central theme, the brain and its mechanisms of random and casual association, perhaps therefore it is built with a dramaturgy in tune with that brain functioning, to the jumps, in an uncertain and non -linear way. With direction of Marcelo Moncarzrequires a spectator attentive to the one that is required to spill the framework of characters and stories, all converging in the real facts on which it is based.
April 18, 1955 Albert Einstein He died of an abdominal aorta aneurysm and had left concrete instructions that his body was cremated. Thomas Harveythe doctor who practiced autopsy, became the most admired brain thief in history and returned his body with one organ less. After weighing the genius brain he kept it to study it and dissected it in 240 portions. For four decades the brain of Einstein He accompanied him in his trunk of the car. I was obsessed with studying that gray matter that finally did not yield any glittering.
The author of the work runs through those milestones, adds family ties and combines that fact with another case that aroused scientific interest, always around the watchmaking mechanism that can be the brain in operation and the counterpart when it is damaged and carries amnesias or is stopped over time. Took the case of Henry Gustav Molaisonvictim of frequent epileptic attacks, whom they practiced one of the first brain surgeries. There were two centimeters from their hippocampus that were stunted and therefore suffered no more seizures. But he could never meet anyone again. Each face was always a new face. Each name always a new name. He was not able to recognize the man who returned the mirror, he was not aware that he had aged. He was subjected to hundreds of psychological studies and each of those tests were always the first for him.
In addition to a narrative to the jumps that advances like a puzzle, the four actors embark on a Force tour through which 19 characters make up through fleeting costume changes. They build the different spaces using 4 chairs that have infinite positions to tell 3 intertwined stories, the robbery of the brain of Einsteinthat of Molaison lost in the hospital and that of the brain thief, Thomas Harvey.
Cecilia Cosero, Tom Cl, Mateo Chiarino and Anna Fantoni They immerse the stalls in a frantic Force tour that takes it for those events between unfortunate and bizarre, in addition to moving with those creatures that fight to connect at least for a few seconds with their loved ones when they are lost in the limbo of memory. Human beings in their labyrinth. These dialogues in Loop, always the same moment, with slight and imperceptible changes, inevitably lead to that immeasurable effort to sustain loved ones when they are in that nebula of dementia. Trying to treasure that rapture of lucidity, if there is.
As so many works that arrive from abroad to prove their universal interest, “Incognito” It was represented in London, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico, Spain, France and other theatrical squares. In this minimalist construction capable of creating multiple scenes, the live music of the celista is key Herlene Mattos. Moncarz He confesses that it is told in each work he does, that is, he works in a geriatric teaching where he is 96 years old. The coexistence with certain life issues linked to dementia since it is small is unavoidable when connecting with this material. “Incognito” It occurs on Mondays at 20:30 in theater complex (Humahuaca 4027).
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