H.M Extension. (360G-Wellcome-095360_Z_11_A)

H.M.' (working title) is a new performance piece by the award-winning Analogue, following the critically-acclaimed (and Wellcome Trust supported) Beachy Head. We plan to create a new theatre piece telling the story of a man who suffered with both severe long-term memory loss and the inability to form new memories, and the impact the condition subsequently had on both his family and on future biomedical procedures. The R&D for this project is inspired by the famous neuroscientific patient Henry Molaison, who underwent experimental brain surgery in 1953, leaving him with severe retrograde and anterograde memory impairment. Our work investigates the story from three dimensions; at the human scale (H.M.'s day to day encounters, including the story of a relationship vanished from history), at the microscopic scale (the histological mapping of Henry's condition) and the telescopic scale (the global dissemination of the findings, streamed online). This application is to support a process of in-depth research with neuroscientific collaborators, as well as the main period of devising and writing. This phase of work happens prior to rehearsals, performance testing in Germany, and the world premiere of the show at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival, for a significant national audience.