A Kind of Alaska

Sam Schacht edits and directs Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska, first performed on a London stage in 1982, based on Oliver Sacks’ (1973) compelling book that chronicles a group of patients he treated; one of them, Deborah, has awakened from a 30-year sleep resulting from encephalitis lethargica. Her sleeping sickness is seen as a metaphor for life and death and the subjectivity of human experience. RSVP by email.

Sam Schacht, MA, LP, is a CMPS graduate and former Dean of Actors Studio Drama School, New School University. He is a producer, actor, and instructor at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

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