Theater of the Mind

About this event

Now Extended

Multiple experiences per day at the Reid Murdoch Building, 333 N LaSalle

Visit TheateroftheMindChicago.com for dates, times, and tickets

Created by David Byrne & Mala Gaonkar

Directed by Andrew Scoville

Produced in Special Arrangement with Arbutus

IT’S ALL INSIDE YOUR HEAD.

BUT IS ANY OF IT REAL?

Co-created by Academy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning artist David Byrne* and writer Mala Gaonkar, Theater of the Mind is a new theatrical experience you’ll see, feel, taste and hear. Inspired by both historical and current neuroscience research, the show takes you on an immersive journey inside how we see and create our worlds. Peer behind the curtain of the physical realm and marvel at the wonders of your mind. Follow your Guide as they revisit key moments in their life in a surreal, 15,000-square-foot installation with a group of just 16 audience members.

Over 75 minutes, you’ll move through a series of rooms where you’ll participate in thought-provoking neuroscience experiences. You’ll learn how easily your own senses can deceive you. If perception and memory are both malleable, then perhaps even your identity is less fixed than you think… You may not be who you think you are. But we’re all in it together.