“Love is a wondrous state. Deep, tender and rewarding…”

Mobile States Cluster Tour 2011

In 1958 Harry Harlow did what had never been done before: he used the word ‘love’ in a scientific paper.

In so doing, he single-handedly changed everything we know about raising children. In a time when parents were told not to comfort a crying baby, Harlow legitimized an infant’s need for love and affection.

But love has a darker side, and in his desire to understand it Harlow’s experiments with baby monkeys became sadistically cruel.

Featuring live video and sound, a unique narrative style and a bravura performance by James Saunders, this award-winning theatrical exploration invites audiences into the laboratory of Harlow’s mind – a place where this extraordinary life and work unravel to illuminate one of the most troubled and controversial scientists of the 20th century.

Can the ends ever justify the means?

“An immersive and provocative meditation on the man, his ground-breaking work and his destructive madness” The Age