Talks
On Truth (and Lies) in Suicide
- 5PM
Single Tickets
In conjunction with Savannah Bay
With Kay Redfield Jamison and Andrew Solomon
Hosted by Simon Critchley
Co-presented by BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center NY
Part of the Hellenic Humanities Program
Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison (Night Falls Fast), an internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, and writer Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree, The Noonday Demon) join philosopher Simon Critchley to discuss an epidemic that claims the lives of over 800,000 people a year. Using Marguerite Duras’ play Savannah Bay as a jumping-off point, they explore some of the key moral, psychological, and legal questions that have confronted societies from both the ancient and modern world.
Paris’ Théâtre de l'Atelier stages revered French writer Marguerite Duras’ mesmerizing two-character drama about the bond formed by two people in the space left by forgetting.