THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OTTO BLOOM

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Imagine you have no recollection of the past and all your memories are of the future. You cannot recall what happened 30 seconds ago, yet you’ve already seen what will happen moments from now. A life in reverse is that of Otto Bloom, a charming, charismatic man whose captivating condition garners the attention of believers and skeptics alike, enthralled with making sense of his peculiar claims. Bloom’s former lover and neuropsychologist Ada replays each memory they shared of their whirlwind romance, working backwards to piece together the experience through Bloom’s eyes. His remarkable rise and fall from media darling to feeble recluse run parallel to his dwindling memories as he approaches death. But Bloom declares time is just an illusion, and the past and future hold no permanent fixture on our being. If this is what we are to believe, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OTTO BLOOM affirms this very moment, here and now, is the only one that matters. —A.B.