THE HARRY HARLOW PROJECT

Written and performed by JAMES SAUNDERS
Directed by BRIAN LIPSON
Sound Design/Composition by KELLY RYALL
Video Design by MARTYN COUTTS
Dramaturgy by KATE SULAN

The Harry Harlow Project is theatre based on the life and work of one of the most controversial scientists of the 20th Century.

Harlow was the first psychologist to explore the nature of love, and his groundbreaking work with baby rhesus monkeys brought him fame and acclaim in the scientific world. However, as his own personal struggles took hold, Harlow’s experiments into the darker side of love became more and more macabre and disturbing.

How do we reconcile that his work became the foundation for everything science now accepts about child-rearing, neglect, child abuse, and depression?

This production explores this man and his work by creating the laboratory inside his head. This is where his ideas, emotions, memories, ethics, insecurities and demons reside and conflict to create the work that has been the source of so much benefit, consternation, admiration and hatred.

“...dazzling indie theatre”

“an immersive and provocative meditation on the man, his ground-breaking work and his destructive madness”