COMEDIAN Rob Newman brings his new show, The Brain Show, to the Swindon Arts Centre on Sunday, November 15.

Following sell-out performances at Edinburgh, Rob Newman is back on the road with ‘The Brain Show’ in which he takes a sceptical approach to some of the claims made by neuroscience.

After volunteering for a brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that lights up when you’re in love, Rob emerges with more questions than answers.

Can brain scans read our minds? Are we our brains? How can you map the mind?

Seeking answers to these questions and more, The Brain Show, explores everything from the thought-processes of stripy spiders to the neurobiology of romantic love, from Alan Turing in a fortune-teller’s tent to Isaac Newton having a meltdown at a County Fair.

The Brain Show also features weird and wonderful electronic props, including a live brain-imaging EEG hat, giving the audience a read-out of Rob’s fluctuating mental state during the show.

  • THE Brain Show is at the Arts Centre, Swindon on November 15, 8pm. Tickets adults £16, concessions £11. For more information visit swindontheatres.co.uk