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PAUL BROKS
Nationality: British
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below is a list of Paul Broks's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
On Ego On EmotionOn Ego
How does the brain create a sense of self? a poetic journey into the science of the mind. a philosopher watchesw as his wife's brain tumour changes her personality. ego theory and bundles theory collide ina struggle to define identity. a startling expose of the illusion of self.
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written by Mick Gordon And Paul Broks, inspired by the book Into the Silent Land by Broks
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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 978-1840026092
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Director and playwright Mick Gordon's On theatre has already given us 'theatre essays,' as he calls them, on death, love and religion and now he turns his attention to emotion in this play co-written with neuropsychologist Paul Broks. In it, cognitive behavioural therapist Stephen, played by James Wilby, is working on a lecture on emotions from which he rehearses various sections throughout the play, enabling the audience to share in some of his professional knowledge: he tells us for instance that emotion is "in one sense no more than a co-ordinated pattern of changes in behaviour and bodily function: different configurations of the facial musculature." He lists six from the repertoire of human emotions: fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise and disgust - with disgust, which becomes a controlling limiter of behaviour, the one emotion that has to be learned. Stephen (and this play) asks whether we are just the puppets of our emotions: "pulled and pushed by forces we can't control" but posits that if we understand the mechanisms of emotion we can control them. Quoting Shakespeare's "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so," he claims it anticipates cognitive behaviour therapy by four centuries!
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide
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By Mick Gordon And Paul Broks
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On Theatre
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 978-1840028836
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