Theater of the Mind at Reid Murdoch Building

Chicago Sun Times - Recommended

"...Enter “Theater of the Mind.” Located in the Reid Murdoch Building in the Loop, and running through July 12, this show exists somewhere in the margins of creepy festival funhouse meets cool high school science experiment. It’s trippy. It’s unique. And somewhere buried in the cool head tricks there is a story about revisiting the pivotal moments of our lives and questioning if we can trust our own recollections."

The Fourth Walsh - Recommended

"...THEATER OF THE MIND plays mind games. You and 15 guests will spend 75 minutes walking through a series of rooms designed for sensory overload. A guide named David* leads the way to his past. Each person has been given a new name and persona. They are linked to David casually or profoundly. The level is revealed through the storytelling as you learn more about David’s life."

Third Coast Review - Highly Recommended

"...Ever wanted to attend your own funeral? Ever wondered if your memories are real or imagined? Ever desired to get inside the big brain of big-suited Talking Heads frontman David Byrne? Now’s your chance via Goodman Theatre’s site-specific walking flashback called Theater of the Mind, created by Academy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning Byrne and writer Mala Gaonkar, who brings the neuroscience research. Andrew Scoville directs with the help of Amanda Berg Wilson and Betty Hart."

Chicago On Stage - Highly Recommended

"...The mind of David Byrne has descended on a historic warehouse building in River North, where audiences encounter memoir made into theatre, memory into experience, and sensorial phenomena into story. Theater of the Mind is a collection of Byrne’s memories set into a multifaceted journey that questions his recollection of events and people from his past by exploring the trustworthiness of our own perception."

Curtain Call Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...This show is not a traditional play; it’s more of an intimate and guided trip through someone’s life (whose name happens to be David) but really the mission is to get us to focus on our own perceptions. It’s an experience that takes the audience through a series of rooms with David as the guide, relating the story of a life, but in reverse, as the story begins in David’s later years and moves backwards to childhood. In this way, the audience is both spectator and subject (each audience member given a character name who played some role in our guide’s life; the fun thing to do is play along as that character)."