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...even when we detest them. This "defenseless engraving of music on the brain," Sacks suggests, is a result of the precision with which most of us can replay music internally; built to seek stimuli, the brain rewards itself for its fidelity with perfect repeats of songs. But for the patients in Sacks' book who suffer musical hallucinations - a related and not uncommon condition in which imaginary music seems to come from an outside source that can't be turned off - the results are often debilitating. One patient, June B., has been subjected to a short, repeating playlist that includes Amazing...
...curtain fell on the first act of “The Art Room,” the HRDC’s latest production in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, one mental patient was stalking across the stage clutching a doll, another was embracing the weeping nurse, and anyone who’d seen a comedy of errors knew where things were going. Although the coincidences unfolding on stage were unsurprising, the actors made “The Art Room” a dynamic and thoroughly enjoyable experience...
...Meanwhile, the dialogues of patient Madeline (Eneniziaogochukwu “Zia” A. Okocha ’08 with her husband Art (Michael Finnerty) clicked perfectly, breathing life into the script’s pointed game of word-association. Okocha’s regal poise made the poeticism of her breezy babble credible. What’s more, she achieved an entrancing sensuality despite her character’s propensity to doze off at inopportune times. As Madeline’s emotionally absent and unfaithful husband, Art took breaks from his cell phone only to dictate business-related thoughts...
...with different heights and configurations of knobs and mounted in stark white and green walls. Although he was dressed in a red onesie, and spoke often of an imaginary princess, Cosgrove’s childishness was never overwrought. And as he frantically paced the stage, his tie flapping, patient Jon (Michael R. Wolfe ’09) successfully encapsulated the caricature of a businessman, a stumbling sycophant, and a poignant romantic in one character. Wolfe’s contorting arms seemed to spin his elaborate lies into being, while the fits of lock-jawed trembling that overtook him when...
...most believably insane character, and clearly the one into whom the actor had most deeply sunk her claws, was the obsessive-compulsive patient Jackie, played by Sarah A. Sherman ’09. Her scuttling, screaming, cuddling, and lucid outbursts put one on edge. While her colleagues occasionally clowned for laughs, Sherman would not let us forget that her character was deeply troubled, if also somewhat sweet and silly...