Incognito
By (Author) Nick Payne
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
28th May 2014
17th April 2014
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
808.2
Paperback
112
Width 126mm, Height 196mm, Spine 9mm
105g
Princeton, New Jersey. 1955. Thomas Stoltz Harvey performs the autopsy on Albert Einstein - and then steals his brain.
Bath, England. 1953. Henry undergoes pioneering brain surgery. The surgery changes Henry's life, and the history of neuroscience.
London, England. The Present. Martha is a clinical neuropsychologist. When her marriage breaks down she starts to make radically different choices.
Three interwoven stories exploring the nature of identity and how we are defined by what we remember, Incognito is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be human.
Nick Payne's Incognito premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle, in April 2014 in a coproduction with nabokov and HighTide Festival Theatre.
Nick Payne's plays include If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet (Bush), One Day When We Were Young (Paines Plough), Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead), Wanderlust and Constellations (Royal (Royal Court). He was awarded the 2009 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and was the 2010 Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Bush Theatre.