Improbable

British theater ensemble Improbable has a long and fertile history with the Wex, beginning with its first US tour in 1999 with the production 70 Hill Lane. A previous Artist Residency Award recipient from 2002–4 and 2007–9, the thought-provoking, 21-year-old company presented the US premiere of The Hanging Man in 2003 and the world premiere of Panic in 2009 at the center.

The 2017–18 Artist Residency Award supports Improbable’s work on Opening Skinner’s Box, which was co-commissioned by the Wexner Center and will be presented in its Performance Space March 29–April 1, 2018.

Inspired by the Lauren Slater book of the same name, the production, in the words of the company, is “a whistle-stop tour of the scientific quest to make sense of what we are and who we are, told through 10 great psychological experiments and the stories of the people who created them.”