Mother, Give Me the Sun

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British director Richard Eyre is in town to direct Ibsen’s Ghosts at BAM. With neuroscientist Heather Berlin, he learns of the neural basis for the pervading theme of attachment and desire that courses through so many of the plays, films, and characters that Sir Richard has directed. Eyre was director of the UK's National Theatre between 1987 and 1997, on the Board of Governors from November 1995- 2003, knighted in 1997, and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Director for Ibsen's Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre. Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She explores interactions of the human brain and mind with the goal of contributing to improved treatment and prevention of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric disorders. She is also interested in the neural basis of consciousness, dynamic unconscious processes, and creativity.