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Horse Trade Theater Group
& Tobacco Bar Theatre Company Present:

Disorder
We are at the Mercy of Our Brains.

Written by Joe LaRue
Directed by Miriam Weiner

APRIL 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 8:00pm
Tuesdays and Wednesdays only

Tickets are $7

Four Performances Only!!!

This preview run of DISORDER is NOT a staged reading or a workshop; it’s a fully-realized performance with sets, costumes, lights and sound.

SYNOPSIS:

DISORDER is a compelling look into the brain as machine, and the quiet tragedies that can occur with its dysfunction.

Inspired by neurological case studies from renowned neurologists Oliver Sacks, V.S. Ramachandran, and others, exposing the variety of dysfunction that can occur in the human brain on a purely neurological level.

A man, after recovering from a car accident, believes that his wife is not his wife but an exact copy of his real wife. A woman discovers that she can no longer feel her muscles in motion and must learn to move using only visual feedback. A man with tourettes syndrome must choose between catatonia and freneticism. A woman with an enlarged brain tumor has entirely lost her ability to find emotional attachment to anyone or anything.

Critical Praise For TOBACCO BAR's 2001 Production of
EINSTEIN'S DREAMS

"This dramatization of the (1993 Alan Lightman) book was beautiful,
with wonderful choreography. . .Very inventive."
Time Out New York

". . .inventive, moving illustrations of memory, contingency and mortality."
Broadway.com