In The Noam Chomsky Lectures?an angry, funny, political tirade?Brooks and Verdecchia challenged audiences to wake up. With Insomnia, the duo's latest collaboration and a much darker show, awakening has become a curse. John is a man skeptical to the point of tyranny. So rigorously demanding of the world and himself that he has lost the power to sleep, he is driving himself and his wife to distraction. "Insomnia turns Chomsky's politics inward'at what point, Insomnia asks, do healthy skepticism and reasonable doubt turn into paranoia and paralysis? Unfolding in a series of ever more surreal vignettes, Insomnia employs a powerful brand of non-linear, disorienting story-telling that skilfully focuses an audience's attention."?NOW