The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion. There is no me, there is no you, and there is certainly no self.
Princeton, New Jersey. 1955. Thomas Stoltz Harvey performs the autopsy of the recently deceased Albert Einstein. And then steals his brain.
Bath, England. 1953. Henry undergoes pioneering brain surgery. The surgery changes Henry’s life, and the history of neuroscience, forever.
London, England. Present. Martha is a clinical neuropsychologist. When her marriage breaks down she starts to make some radically different choices.
Three interwoven stories exploring the nature of identity and how we are defined by what we remember, Incognito is a dazzling new play about what it means to be human.
Nick Payne was the winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for Constellations (Royal Court/West End). His plays also include Olivier Award-nominated The Same Deep Water As Me (Donmar Warehouse), If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet at the Bush Theatre and in New York starring Jake Gyllenhall, and most recently Blurred Lines (NT Shed).
Presented by nabokov, Live Theatre Newcastle, HighTide Festival Theatre in association with The North Wall
Hayley Kaimakliotis’s theatre include Girl’s Guide To Saving The World (HighTide), Stuart: A Life Backwards (Edinburgh, Watford Palace Theatre, Sheffield Crucible), Neighbors (HighTide/Nuffield Southampton), Mudlarks (Bush Theatre/HighTide/Theatre 503), The Tempest Suitcase Shakespeare (RSC), Pitcairn Workshop (Out of Joint/RSC), The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), Firewatchers (Old Red Lion), Amphibians (The Bridewell) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wirksworth Festival/Riverside Studios)
As Casting Director for the Finborough productions include Facts, the award winning Accolade and FoxFinder, Don Juan, Crush, Rigor Mortis, Fanta Orange, Drama at Inish, Me and Juliet, Miss Lilly Gets Boned, The Northerners and numerous Vibrant seasons.
Casting assistant credits include Shakespeare in Love (Noel Coward Theatre), BBC – Very Few Fish, Watson and Oliver Series 2, Autumn Leaves, Doctors, Casualty, Holby City, EastEnders. For the RSC – Troilus and Cressida, Forests, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mouse and His Child, Boris Godunov, Life of Galileo, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well and Hamlet.
Hayley is a probationary member of the CDG.
New theatre for adventurous audiences.
‘It’s hard to believe that HighTide has only been running its annual theatre festival for six years. It’s already punching far above its weight.’ The Guardian, April 2012
HighTide Festival Theatre are proud to be collaborating with the Bush Theatre for a third time following productions of Stovepipe by Adam Brace (named one of the ten best plays of the decade by The Sunday Times) and I Caught Crabs in Walberswick by Joel Horwood.
HighTide Festival Theatre is a national theatre company and engine room for the discovery, development and production of exceptional new playwrights.
Under Artistic Director Steven Atkinson, the annual HighTide Festival in Suffolk has become one of the UK’s leading theatre events. HighTide’s productions premiere at the festival and then many have toured nationally and internationally in partnerships with co-producers including the Bush Theatre (2008 & 2009), National Theatre (2009), Old Vic Theatre (2010), Ambassador Theatre Group / West End (2011), Headlong Theatre, Soho Theatre, Nuffield Theatre Southampton, BAC, People’s Palace Projects and Theatre503 (2012), to the Edinburgh Festival (2008, 2010, 2011 &2012) and internationally with the Australian National Play Festival (2010) and Public Theater, New York (2012).
HighTide receives, considers and produces new plays from all around the world. Every play is read and the festival is an eclectic mix of theatre across several venues in Halesworth, Suffolk. Our artistic team and Literary Department are proud to develop all the work we produce and we offer bespoke development opportunities for playwrights throughout the year.
HighTide Festival Theatre is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England.
Isobel Waller-Bridge trained at Edinburgh University, Kings College London and the Royal Academy of Music.
Theatre credits as composer include King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre/BAM New York), Neville’s Island (Chichester Festival Theatre), If Only (Minerva Theatre).
Credits as composer and sound designer include Incognito (HighTide Festival/ Bush Theatre), Orlando (Manchester Royal Exchange), Fleabag (Soho Theatre), Yellow Face (Park Theatre/The NT Shed), Forever House (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Sleuth (Watermill Theatre), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Gate Theatre), Mydidae (Soho Theatre and Trafalgar Studios), Blink (Traverse Theatre and Soho Theatre) and The Girl with the Iron Claws (Arcola Theatre); as musical director, A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre) and A Christmas Carol (Library Theatre Manchester); as music associate and musician, The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre), Rocket to the Moon and Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre).
Television, film and radio credits as composer include Secret Symphony (Samsung/Times), Gilead (Radio 3), Physics (Winner Best Short BFI Film Festival 2013), Ellie, Disaffected, Beautiful Enough, Hometown and Meeting Mr Tiller; as orchestrator/arranger, The Imposter (BAFTA winner), Life (Ivor Novello winner), Planet Earth Live!, The Bounty Hunter, The Day of the Flowers and Route Irish. As musical director, The Boy I Love (V&A Films).
Joe Murphy is the Artistic Director of nabokov.
Theatre as director include The Taming Of The Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), Forever House (Plymouth Theatre Royal), Blink (Soho Theatre/ Traverse), Symphony (Outdoor Festivals tour), Young Pretender (Edinburgh Festival Fringe and UK tour), Bunny (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/UK tour/ Soho Theatre/59E59 Brits Off Broadway Season), and The Boy on the Swing (Arcola Theatre).
Joe is Artistic Associate at Soho Theatre.
Live Theatre Newcastle production company
nabokov production company
Nick Payne’s theatre credits include If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Bush Theatre, London, and Roundabout Theatre Company, New York; winner of the 2009 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright), Wanderlust (Royal Court Theatre, London), Sophocles’ Electra (Gate Theatre, London), Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London), Constellations (Royal Court Theatre, London, and Duke of York’s, London; winner of the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, nominated for 2013 Olivier Awards Best New Play), The Same Deep Water As Me (Donmar Warehouse, London; nominated for 2014 Olivier Awards Best New Comedy) and Blurred Lines (The Shed, National Theatre, London).
Television credits include The Secrets.
Film credits include The Sense of an Ending and Nora.
Radio credits include How I Learned to Drive, Ten Lessons in Love, The City is at a Standstill, The Day We Caught the Train. In 2010, Nick was the Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Bush Theatre. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Harold Pinter Playwright’s Award, supporting a new commission from the Royal Court Theatre.
Nick Payne’s theatre credits include If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Bush Theatre, London, and Roundabout Theatre Company, New York; winner of the 2009 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright), Wanderlust (Royal Court Theatre, London), Sophocles’ Electra (Gate Theatre, London), Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London), Constellations (Royal Court Theatre, London, and Duke of York’s, London; winner of the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, nominated for 2013 Olivier Awards Best New Play), The Same Deep Water As Me (Donmar Warehouse, London; nominated for 2014 Olivier Awards Best New Comedy) and Blurred Lines (The Shed, National Theatre, London).
Television credits include The Secrets.
Film credits include The Sense of an Ending and Nora.
Radio credits include How I Learned to Drive, Ten Lessons in Love, The City is at a Standstill, The Day We Caught the Train. In 2010, Nick was the Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Bush Theatre. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Harold Pinter Playwright’s Award, supporting a new commission from the Royal Court Theatre.
Oliver Townsend trained at RWCMD. He is an associate artist of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill.
Set and costume designs include Incognito (nabokov, Live Theatre Newcastle, HighTide Festival Theatre, The North Wall, Bush Theatre), The Blackest Black (Hampstead Theatre), Jack and The Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith), No Place To Go (Gate Theatre), Rodelinda (Scottish Opera), Grounded (Notting Hill Gate/Edinburgh Traverse), Macbeth (Blackheath Halls Opera), Hitchcock Blonde (Hull Truck), Blood Wedding (Royal and Derngate), Gods are Fallen and All Safety Gone (Greyscale/ Almeida Festival), Wittenberg (The Gate), Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be (Union), INTRIGUE/LOVE (Southwark Playhouse), Narcissus (The Roundhouse), The Grimm Bros’ Circus (Bath Theatre Royal, En Masse Theatre), For All Time, The Memory of Water, Blackbird (Theatre by the Lake).
Costume Designs include The Measures Taken (Alexander Whitley Dance Company/ROH Linbury), Wozzeck (English National Opera), The Lighthouse (English Touring Opera/ROH Linbury), Big Maggie (Druid Theatre).
Paul Jellis is producer for nabokov.
Productions for nabokov include Blink by Phil Porter (Traverse, Soho Theatre, Jagriti Theatre Bangalore, UK tour, 59E59 New York), Symphony by Ella Hickson, Nick Payne and Tom Wells (Lyric Hammersmith, Outdoor Festivals Tour, VAULT festival) and Fairy Tales by Jack Thorne and Arthur Darvill (Latitude, BAC). He also programmes and produces nabokov’s signature event The nabokov Arts Club.
Paul is also a founder of interactive company Bad Physics. Productions for Bad Physics include The Adventure by Oliver Birch (HighTide Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Royal Exchange Manchester), The Enchanted Story Trail by Joel Horwood (RHS Wisley), Toad by Dan Bird (Southwark Playhouse) and Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (Southwark Playhouse, Brighton Fringe, BAC).
Freelance work includes the European Première of Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph (Gate Theatre).
Paul is an Associate Artist of HighTide Festival Theatre.
Tim’s theatre credits include American Idiot (Arts Theatre), Guys & Dolls (Guildhall), Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith), Miracle on 34th st (UK Tour), HMS Pinafore (Hackney Empire), Incognito (Bush), The Dr Who Experience (BBC), Bare (Greenwich Theatre), Louserville The Musical, Whistle Down The Wind, Pacific Overtures, Bare, and Billy (The Union), Good With People (59E59, NYC), The 8th (The Barbican), Wigan, & 65 Miles (Hull Truck), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Platform Theatre), Chips With Everything (Embassy Studio), As Is (Finbourgh Theatre), The Oikos Project, and Protozoa (The Red Room), Zombie Prom The Musical (Landor Theatre), Macbeth (Sprite Productions), Boiling Frogs (Factory Theatre), resident lighting designer at The Box Soho, and co-lit eleven new plays for The Broken Space Season (The Bush). Tim was the Associate Lighting designer for the National Theatre. He’s also worked as an Assistant Lighting Designer on projects like Scottsboro Boys (West END), White Christmas, (West End), Chicago The Musical (Uk Tour, China, Madrid, Spanish Tour, Seol Korea), 9 to 5 The Musical (UK Tour), Pipin (Chocolate Factory), and High School Musical 2 (UK Tour). Film work includes lighting Animal Charm, The Actress, and Suzie Luvitt for Ben Edwards and The Prank Show for the BBC. Tim also received the “Young Lighting Designer of the Year” award from the Association of Lighting Designers in 2008.
Theatre credits include: Children of the Sun, Our Class, The Playboy of the Western World, Peer Gynt, Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (RSC), Fred’s Diner (Chichester), In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (Theatre Royal Bath), Bang Bang Bang and O Go My Man (Royal Court Theatre/Out of Joint), Fewer Emergencies and Crazyblackmuthafuckinself (Royal Court Theatre), Faith Healer, (Hong Kong Arts Festival), Ghosts (Arcola Theatre), Wallenstein (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), In A Little World of Our Own and Pentecost (Donmar Warehouse), Dealer’s Choice and My Night With Reg (Birmingham Rep), Protestants (Traverse & Soho Theatre), Fall (Traverse, Edinburgh), Drink Dance Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre), The Deep Blue Sea (Royal Exchange Manchester), Red Roses and Petrol, Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Ash Fire (Tricycle Theatre), The Plough and The Stars, Aristocrats, The Silver Tassie, Howling Moons Silent Sons (Abbey Theatre, Dublin) Shiver and Spokesong (Rough Magic, Dublin).
Television includes: Dr Who, Whitechapel, Sunshine, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Nuremberg, Friends and Crocodiles, Murder City, Rebel Heart, The Informant, Father Ted, The American.
Film includes: Christina Noble, Wonder, The Matchmaker, Though the Sky Falls, On the Edge, Saving Private Ryan, Moll Flanders, Nora, Spin the Bottle, The General, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Michael Collins, The Organ Grinder’s Monkey, The Devils Harvest.
Theatre credits include: Purple Heart (Gate Theatre), Choices ‘98, Breath Boom, Oxford Street (Royal Court) and Yard Gal (Royal Court and MCC Theatre, New York), Medea (Headlong), A Bitter Herb (Bristol Old Vic), Not Black and White (Tricycle Theatre), Great Expectations (Royal Exchange) and The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Television credits include: Father Brown, Stepping Up, Case Sensitive, Injustice, The Shadow Line, The Bill, Casualty, Holby City, Mit, Silent Witness, Second Quest, Murder in Mind, Peak Practice, Every Woman Knows a Secret and The Vice.
Film and radio credits include: Beginner’s Luck, Essex Boys, Elephant Juice, A Herlot’s Progress, To Swallow, The Tall One, Something Blue, Not My Problem and Essex Girls.
Alison is currently reprising her leading regular role in the BBC’s Shetland series opposite Douglas Henshall.
Her theatre credits include Boys (Headlong), Yerma (Gate Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre), The Hard Man (Scottish Theatres Consortium), My Romantic History (Bush Theatre/Sheffield Crucible), Eigengrau (Bush Theatre), Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland), Lady Windermere's Fan (Oran Mor), The Assassination of Paris Hilton (Racked), Mad Funny Just (Creased), 1 in 5 (Hampstead Theatre Daring Pairings), Phaedre (Offstage), Barren (Old Vic New Voices - The 24 Hour Plays), The Ghost Sonata (Goat and Monkey) and Broken Road (Hush Productions).
Her television credits include Shetland (BBC), Holby City (BBC), Feel the Force (Catherine Bailey Productions).
