Join Wes Savick and Tod Machover, the Director/Playwright and the Composer of Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M., for a post-show conversation about their journey bringing H.M.’s story to the stage.

Post-Performance Conversation
Special Guest: Sarah Gumlak, Research Dramaturg for Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M.

H.M.’s case greatly illuminated the field of Neuroscience and memory research.
What did his condition teach us about how our memory works, and where can we see the impact and the legacy of H.M. in science today?
Special Guests: Howard Eichenbaum, Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at Boston University. He is also the director of the Center for Memory and The Brain, the Center for Neuroscience, and of the Cognitive Neurobiology Laboratory. His primary focus is on the hippocampus, the portion of HM’s brain that was removed in his surgery.

Join the cast and director in a post-performance talkback!
Special Guests: Cast and director of Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M.

Tonight’s performance is followed by a conversation with CST staff, artists, audiences, and Cambridge-area organizations, focusing on intersections between stories on our stage and stories in our community.
Special Guests: Kaloyan S. Tanev, MD, Director of Clinical Neuropsychiatry Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a physician in the MGH/Red Sox Foundation Home Base Program, dedicated to improving the lives of veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan living with deployment- or combat-related stress and/or traumatic brain injury. Sarah Boyer, Oral History Project coordinator, Cambridge Historical Commission, who interviews the people of Cambridge about their memories of the neighborhoods they lived in and cared for during the last century. Ildiko Szabo, Director of Community Life, Youville House in Cambridge.