2401 Objects

<b>2011 Fringe First Award Winner</b><br/><br/>Henry are you awake?<br/><br/>Henry lives each day like the last. Exactly like the last. Every day he tries to make sense of the world around him; the girl sitting on the lawn outside his window the pages of a book filled with the same sentence the 80 year old man looking at him in the mirror.<br/><br/>In 2009 Patient H.M.'s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400000 people cut into carefully preserved slices: manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book.<br/><br/>In 1953 Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery without any recollection of the last two years of his life or the ability to form new memories.<br/><br/>In 1935 nine-year old Henry is knocked over by a bike leaving him unconscious for five minutes.<br/><br/>Following Analogue's critically acclaimed Mile End and Beachy Head and inspired by the world's most important neuroscientific case-study 2401 Objects tells the remarkable story of a man who could no longer remember but who has proven impossible to forget.<br/>