DENVER — David Byrne would like you to consider one more thing on top of the global pandemic and societal chaos currently taking up space in your brain: the fallibility of the human mind.
“We’re talking about questions of our own perception and our own identity,” the 70-year-old said from a worn armchair inside his “Theater of the Mind” space last month, dressed in his signature white, head-to-toe. “Putting that on a stage like a proscenium … it’s a great subject, but what you really want to do is experience it for yourself.”
Byrne, the Grammy-winning co-founder of The Talking Heads and Tony-winning creator of Broadway’s “American Utopia,” had already set his sights on Denver with the 2019 announcement of “Theater of the Mind.” The secretive, interactive theater production, co-written with Mala Gaonkar, would send groups of 16 people at a time through a 15,000-square-foot bank of interconnected rooms, unfurling a dramatic yet personal story through its actor-guides but also cutting-edge science experiments.
