2401 Objects

by Analogue,, Lewis Hetherington, Hannah Barker

2011 Fringe First Award Winner"Henry, are you awake?”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.In 2009 Patient H.M.’s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400,000 people, cut into carefully preserved manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book.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.In 1935 nine-year old Henry is knocked over by a bike, leaving him unconscious for five minutes.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.

Genres: Plays

73 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 18, 2012

Reviews

[Anna Belkovska · Rating 4 out of 5]

"No. No Henry. No. Fine. We'll do nothing. That's right. We'll sit here and do nothing as we always do. Sit here and do nothing and and just… Just quietly disappoint each other for the rest of our lives."

As a student of playwriting, I have to read stuff like this quite often and... and it gets sad. Sad and "I wish I could write this".

[Cara Patel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very interesting play.

I think this was a good examination of both someone living with a disability, and the people connected with them, without focusing too exclusively on either. I think this would be an interesting watch as it really made me think.

Also, when I got to the point where I found out what the title meant I found it very moving.

I do think, however, that it could have done with more detailed instructions / diagrams on how the stage was set up, because it wasn't made very clear.

[Emma]

A memory play about a man with no memory.