BESTSELLER ON THE BDT STAGE

Galina Zaltsman has staged a performance on the Small Stage based on the acclaimed book by British neurologist and philosopher Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" published in 1985. The theater stage has become a field for exploring subtle matters, where the boundaries between reality and worlds created by the imagination are sometimes blurred. In his collection, Oliver Sacks described clinical cases, presenting them as philosophical parables. The main characters are lost between truth and fiction, fears and hopes, experiencing the most incredible cataclysms: some lose sensation in their own bodies, some begin to see music, and still others mistake their own wives for hats. Galina Zaltsman's production is far from illustrating the bizarre pathologies of the human psyche. The director invites the audience on a journey through the inner worlds of her characters, engaging them in an exploration of the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Theater is the most organic space for such experiments. "Theater almost always asks us to treat what isn't actually happening as if it were reality, not fiction. Although the reverse sequence should be considered normal," the director notes. The next performances will take place on April 17 and 30.