Homage to Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
British neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Its Alive! Play Reading Series presents a reading of The Man Who by Peter Brook, English theater and film director, by students and faculty under the direction of Anna Kohler. The play is based on the 1985 Oliver Sacks book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a best-selling collection of case histories about some of Sacks' neurologically impaired patients.
MIT student Abra Shen, a senior in Theater Arts and Brain and Cognitive Science, will present an introduction about Dr. Oliver Sachs.