Nick Payne
Incognito US
Four actors play a combined 21 characters within Incognito’s three interwoven stories. A pathologist steals the brain of Albert Einstein; a neuropsychologist embarks on her first romance with another woman; a seizure patient forgets everything but how much he loves his girlfriend. Incognito braids these mysterious stories into one breathtaking whole that asks whether memory and identity are nothing but illusions.
"One of his great gifts is the ability to poignantly meld complicated philosophic and scientific tenets with simpler human struggles"
Alexis SoloskiThe Guardian Full Review
"Incognito might have easily tipped over in pretentiousness — among the characters are various pathologists, neuropsychologists and descendants of Albert Einstein — but instead proves fleet, witty and, by the end of its 85 minutes, heartbreaking"
Christopher KellyNJ Full Review
"Restless intellectualism is only to be expected of Mr. Payne, the young British playwright who is fast becoming the theater’s equivalent to Prof. Brian Cox"
Ben BrantleyThe New York Times Full Review
