London Playback Theatre are performing again at Clean Break in Camden. Come along and join us for an entertaining and moving evening.
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‘A mind full of memories’ combines theatre and neuroscience to show – as well as tell – how the mind can heal after trauma. A new collaboration between Cambridge University scientist/educators The Naked Scientists and Playback Theatre debuts at this year’s Cambridge University Festival of Ideas. As a member of London Playback Theatre, I am very excited to be performing at this event and demonstrating our form of therapeutic improvisational theatre. London Playback Theatre is a multicultural team of highly experienced professional theatre practitioners, consultants, educators and therapists. Mark Evans, a soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan will speak about how improvisational theatre helped him deal with debilitating memories and post traumatic stress disorder after returning from Afghanistan. Naked scientists Hannah Critchlow, Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes and Dr Emma Cahill will present new research describing what happens at the cellular level when memories are formed in the neuro-circuitry of the brain, how memories are linked to emotions and habits, and how this wiring can be altered. ‘Mind full of memories’ is part of the Cambridge University Festival of Ideas, which runs from 20 October to 2 November. Now in its seventh year, the Festival aims to explore some of the most vital and thought-provoking ideas of our time, from rising nationalism, gender and racial politics to digital rights and innovation. The Festival brings together and celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences. ‘A mind full of memories’ will take place on October 22nd, 7-8.30pm at the Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge. For further information, please contact Catherine Aman on 01223 332420 or email [email protected]. For information about the Festival of Ideas, click here. |
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