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CJD

Presented by:
The Boondogglers

Written by:
James Jordan

Directed by:
James Jordan

Neurological Condition:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Running time:
1 hour 30 minutes

Synopsis:
C.J.D. is a story of human suffering and transcendence, full of interesting science, all told in a multi-mediated-piano-playing bit of agit-prop silliness with the best of intentions by a neurologist-playwright. In the vernacular of Hollywood: “it’s Spalding Gray meets Oliver Sacks meets The Onion meets Bill Nye meets Laurie Anderson meets Anton Chekhov meets The Daily Show meets a geeky Secular Humanist National Academy of Sciences Drug Rep Dinner….”

Performances:
Saturday, January 7 at 1:00
Saturday, January 14 at 11:00 and 7:00
Saturday, January 28 at 3:00

Actors:
James Jordan

Press:

"Jordan, the sole performer and himself a neurologist in residence at Case Western's University Hospitals of Cleveland, is a zany guy who is able to transition between silliness and sincerity with ease." nytheatre.com

CJD

Writer-performer James Jordan with Mud Men of New Guinea and a witch-doctor-Derrida, with Iceland’s Thingvellir waterfall in background.

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