Where have all the words gone?
A witty guessing game shows the potential of audience participation in performing narratives of aphasia
A witty guessing game shows the potential of audience participation in performing narratives of aphasia
Lil tells Lucinda that in the immediate aftermath of her stroke her family seemed interested in talking to each other than to her.
Should artists working health settings expect to be stretched in their work? What is the artist’s responsibility if the intervention takes participants to difficult places? Composer Orlando Gough risks some difficult music wth a group of stroke survivors.
Recollecting half a lifetime of driving London streets reveals the remarkable resilience of mental maps in the stroke stricken brains of a cabbie and a bus driver.
Video offers vivid evaluation.
A lyrical journey through the three dimensions – point, line, sphere – maps the herculean progress of Titus’s stroke recovery.
The Shakeh brings Pauline back into the world. For Victoria this dance, like the sudden strike of stroke, is Shocking.
Mixed feelings about the gift of language.
The emotional fall-out of stroke can be overwhelming. A trip to Lourdes offers Jamsie and Christine a surprise cure for depression and tears.
When Ken was a ploughboy he would shout Hough and Heigh to get his horses to pull more to the left or the right. Fifty years later he drew inspiration from the memory of these commands when they took away his driving license because a stroke had resulted in him veering to the left whilst driving.