I especially enjoyed Sophie Winkleman (Two and a Half Men) as Emma. ( )

Car accident leaves Donny with brain damage and his reality is three years in the past when life was in a very different place.

I don't really know what the point to this was, but it was entertaining. It's a play about a guy with a brain injury that remembers his ex but not his current wife. They're all thrown in together, and nothing is really sorted out. ( )

I don't really know what the point to this was, but it was entertaining. It's a play about a guy with a brain injury that remembers his ex but not his current wife. They're all thrown in together, and nothing is really sorted out. ( )

I downloaded Donny’s Brain during the Audiobook Sync promotion and finally got a chance to listen to it! I feel like the LA Theatre Works audiobooks are very much hit-or-miss for me. Obviously, I would prefer to actually watch the play and think that some are more suited than others for audiobooks, but this one worked fairly nicely as an audiobook!

Basically, Donny has been in a car accident and has brain damage. His memory has been set back some years, so he remembers loving and being married to a woman who is now his ex-wife, and can’t remember his current wife at all. And I thought some past situations I had involving exes were awkward —

This play revolves around relationships and basically how hard it is to communicate and be in a relationship. Sometimes, we guess at what people are intending when it’s not really what they mean to say or do, and sometimes we completely misremember events to make us out to be better than we actually are/were in the situation. This play goes into all of these things and involves some really interesting aspects of people not really remembering what went wrong, what went right, or what even happened. There’s even an ironic aspect of maybe the guy with brain damage remembers the most clearly, after all. It’s short, sweet, and drives the point home that when relationships don’t work out, it’s most likely the fault of both parties in some way or another.

Overall, this listening experience was enjoyable. The actors did a lovely job and having it be full cast really helped me follow the story. If you have an hour and a half to spare, I think this is worth your time.

Originally posted on Going on to the Next. ( )