Edition: U.S. / Global  THEATER REVIEW: THE MAN WHO; Peter Brook
Charts Twists and Turns Of the Human Mind  Published: March 15,
1995  Running a mere 100 minutes and played without an
intermission, Peter Brook's hypnotizing new theatrical work,
"The Man Who," would seem to be as spare and tightly constructed
as his 10-hour "Mahabharata" was winding and discursive. Yet
"The Man Who" is no less an epic. It's as vast and mysterious as
the human imagination, and as commonplace as the image of a man
trying to shave himself, but failing.  The work was inspired by,
but is in no way a conventional stage adaptation of, "The Man
Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," Oliver Sacks's best-selling
collection of case histories about the neurologically impaired.
Performed by a superb ensemble of four actors and one musician,
this series of fables is an adventurous journey through the
mind, as well as a demonstration of a very rare kind of
dedicated theater craft.  "The Man Who" is not really a play.
It's certainly not a documenta