Passing Through Every Part of the Brain

Passing Through Every Part of the Brain is a journey about memories and reflections, self-isolation and self-reconciliation directed and written by Jiazheng Li. The character of Me keeps himself in an isolated space with “white” walls. This is an isolated place that indulges Me with comfort and protects him from darkness, where he can enjoy his own solitude. He lives within the space with imaginary shadows of his subconsciousness, the imaginary voices from his past and distant relationship — his mother, his girlfriend and his close friend.

The writer and director Jiazheng Li says: “Passing Through Every Part of My Brain is based on my personal experience when I had depressed feelings in those couple of years. It is like a specific part of my body has been taken out, but it is also always in me. during that period, I kept trying to find the relationship with others and also with myself. The play is autobiographical. It is my reconciliation with myself. It is my personal attempt to retrace a past period of life, to review that dark and painful experience of depression and self-isolation and to dig into the journey of finding myself as a relational being.
As my mental state gradually improved, I tried to revisit that seemingly painful experience and it seemed to somehow bring me back into the world again, but of course these changes I didn’t know how to describe in words, so I wrote those feelings into this script.”

Venue: Crypt Gallery, 165 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BA

Cast:

Pietro Cannizzaro, Hvini Ingrid, Abby Walburn and Zacharie Lenglet.

Creative team:

Writer and director: Jiazheng Li

Designer: Joel Li

Producer and production manager: UU Zhang