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L’HOMME QUI By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne Based on the book The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat By Oliver Sacks

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Translation: Dori Parnes Directing: Gita Munte

Set and Costume Design: Polina Adamov Lighting Design: Roni Cohen Music: Eugene Levitas Video Art: Guy Romem – Studio Insight

Actors David Ben Zeev Yoav Hyman Shachar Netz Itai Szor All the actors play the roles of doctors and patients intermittently

Inspired by the book written by the renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, Peter Brook has created a theatrical event or “a theatrical research” as he calls it – portraying a series of meetings between doctors and their patients. Each scene provides the audience with a different and unusual neurological case and confronts us with the amazing, exciting and strange phenomenon, which can take place in our human mind such as autism, visual agnosia, Toret syndrome and others. Among the cases which the play portrays are a man who sees only half of what is in front of him and therefore shaves only half of his face, a man who cannot recognize objects by name because he only sees their shape, the man who cannot speak in his mother tongue and the man who thought his wife is a hat. The play exposes these people revealing the pain and psychological complexities, which these unique syndromes inflict upon them.

Production Staff Production Director: Edna Twig Production and Technical Supervisor: Sasson Chazam Lighting and Sound Manager: Roni Cohen

Program Editor: Assaf Berznitsky Photography: Yael Ilan // yaelilanblog.com Program and Poster Design: Elad Elharar - Design & Illustration // eladelharardesign.com Public Relations: Orit Harel, The Jerusalem Khan Theatre

The performance lasts about 1 hour and 15 mins. (without intermission). Premiere: June 29 th 2019 .

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