Donny's Brain Audiobook

The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Includes a conversation about brain trauma and memory loss with Dr. David Hovda, the Director of the Brain Injury Research Center at UCLA.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in June 2015.

Directed by Martin Jarvis

Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg

Paul Fox as Al

Jared Harris as Donny

Siobhán Hewlett as Trish

Moira Quirk as Flea

Sophie Winkleman as Emma

Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson, Myke Weiskopf

Recording and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

Assistant Recording Engineer and Editor: Wesley Dewberry

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“British acting standouts Jared Harris (Fringe) and Sophie Winkleman, along with Irish newcomer Siobhán Hewlett, are off to the races with Scottish playwright Rona Munro’s play. Her crackling, insightful dialogue illuminates Donny’s former wife and current girlfriend—both of whom can’t help but feel that Donny has become an entirely new person. Donny’s Brain is a special production of the LA Theatre Works Relativity Series, which encourages science-themed plays, but it’s the human voices inside and outside Donny’s head that make this story special. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

— AudioFile