Reassembled, Slightly Askew Vignette - Mr McConnell

Описание: Mr Roy McConnell is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital in the Belfast Health & Social Care Trust. He was Shannon’s neurosurgeon while she was in the acute Neurosurgery Ward undergoing treatment for her subdural empyema, and since then, Mr McConnell has served as a biomedical advisor on Reassembled, Slightly Askew, ensuring that the medical content is accurate and building links with other neurosurgeons across the UK.

Reassembled, Slightly Askew is an autobiographical, audio-based artwork about Shannon’s experience of falling critically ill with a rare brain infection and her journey of rehabilitation with an acquired brain injury.

Audience members experience Reassembled... individually, listening to the audio via headphones, while lying on a hospital bed. The audio technology makes the sound three-dimensional, causing listeners to feel they are inside Shannon’s head, viscerally experiencing her descent into coma, brain surgeries, early days in the hospital, and re-integration into the world with a hidden disability. It is a new kind of storytelling, never done before about this topic.

MORE INFO: https://shannonyee.wordpress.com

TOUR DETAILS

2015 Tour Dates

30 April - 5 May, The MAC (www.themaclive.com) as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (www.cqaf.com)

6-10 May, Down Arts Centre (www.downartscentre.com)

11-15 May, The Playhouse (www.derryplayhouse.co.uk)

18-22 May, Flowerfield Arts Centre (www.flowerfield.org)

26-29 May, Burnavon Arts Centre (www.burnavon.com)

1-6 June, Island Arts Centre (www.islandartscentre.com)

Sept 2015 (dates TBC); Arts & Disability Forum’s BOUNCE! Festival (www.adf.ie)