His precise observations of human dissection and highly skilled artistic ability produced a variety of influential illustrations of reproductive systems, extremity structures, and skeletal representations.

The monkey advises checking performance times on your tickets and that performances are happening as scheduled, before travelling. It’s for the science lovers and graphic novel lovers alike (and lord knows the two don’t always overlap). Tonight the human body itself is putting on a show and everyone from the stagehands (the cells) to the players (whether they’re body parts or viruses) is fully engaged and involved.

By turns goofy and intensely informative, the Human Body Theater is always accessible and always entertaining. I'm in an anatomy unit right now with my 5th grader, and this book was recommended to go along with that unit. He found it inspiring and told me all kinds of cool things he learned, and he even asked me for things like mushrooms and kale because the book told him what those things are good for nutritionally (have I ever told him that stuff? The Total Theatre Magazine Print Archive covers almost 25 years of contemporary theatre and performance, spanning the period from 1989-2012.

Currently playing at the Donmar Warehouse is Lynn Nottage drama Clyde’s until 2 December, followed by David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth, from 8 December 2023 to 10 February 2024. What parent wouldn’t admit a bit of a thrill when their kid points to their own femur and declares proudly that it’s the longest bone in the human body?Her surgical metamorphosis is not motivated by a desire to improve her appearance, but rather it is to create a complete change of image.

This lifelong interest, beginning in his teens, would even come to be reflected in his work in architecture and painting. But this is Gray’s with a difference: it still has all the fine engravings of the original, but accompanied by fresher, more accessible text that explains in lay terms exactly how the hip bone is connected to the thigh bone, and all that other cool stuff in our bodies! While the study of human anatomy is well known for its emergence in Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe, there are often untold gaps in the history of anatomy, particularly beyond the West. Many anatomists would duplicate these works, passing them off as their own to bolster their professional reputations.By the turn of the 14th century, there was a growing movement within the medical community to challenge this traditional approach to medicine as well as anatomy. as George will be Tom Goodman-Hill (as Julian Elcock), Flora Jacoby Richardson and Audrey Kattan (sharing the role of Laura Elcock), Pearl Mackie (as Sylvia Samuels) and Siobhán Redmond (as Helen Mackeson MP) with additional characters played by members of the company.