Do You Have a Brain?

An interactive one-person show about the incredible capabilities of the human brain and the price of scientific discovery — about real research, patients and rebel scientists. 16+. 1 hour 15 minutes + discussion.

Disclaimer: all characters and events in the show are real. Any resemblance to actual people and circumstances is intentional.
Warning: by buying a ticket, you consent to take part in a scientific experiment. No dissection is planned.

Science or fiction

Can you hold your balance using your tongue? Restore movement to a paralysed arm? Stop the pain in a limb that's long gone? It sounds like science fiction. But behind every story are real studies, patients and rebel scientists who were at first considered freaks, madmen and dangerous heretics.

A theatrical experiment

Concept and director Dmitry Turkov brings together scientific discoveries and human stories in a provocative theatrical experiment. On stage — actor Sergey Vasin as an eccentric scientist-Mephistopheles. He turns the auditorium now into a laboratory, now into a jury room: running experiments, presenting evidence, and testing how easily a person can be made to believe the impossible. Or to disbelieve what's already been proven.

You decide

You'll have to decide: where a scientific breakthrough ends and madness begins; whether a cruel experiment can be justified by the lives it saves; whether a damaged limb is always truly atrophied — or the brain is just too lazy to use it; and who's really in charge of your brain while you're sure you're thinking for yourself.