CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN

Pig Iron makes a triumphant return to New York with Chekhov Lizardbrain, a play that dives into the center of an autistic mind.  In bizarre twists and turns that take us from neuroscience to a domestic squabble to the circus ring, Chekhov Lizardbrain captures the state of a mind shaped like a Mobius-strip, as it zigzags back and forth over certain memories until they begin to resemble Chekhov plays. Dmitri, our protagonist, replays his memories until they are ornamented and decorated into a comforting fiction; what we witness is a kind of mental circus. 

The setting of Chekhov Lizardbrain is part laboratory and part vaudeville theater, and the performance careens between trancelike dances, perception experiments, and full-throttle hilarity.  The four award-winning performers - Quinn Bauriedel, Geoff Sobelle, James Sugg and Dito van Reigersberg - perform a series of highly physical numbers that spring from disparate regions of the brain.