Standing alone, the story of Flowers for Algernon is solidly fiction—it was originally published in a science fiction magazine—because, let's face it, there is no operation that transforms the intellectually disabled into geniuses. But if you can watch Deaf West's Flowers for Algernon without thinking about cochlear implants, you're not paying attention.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PM on October 11, 2013