DR STANLEY MILGRAM Stanley Milgram was born in New York City in 1933. He is most known for studies into obedience. The controversy that these experiments still generate followed Milgram for most of his life. His interest in conformity stems from both his own Jewish heritage and Hannah Arendt's controversial report on the trial of Adolf Eichman in Jerusalem. "Eichman in Jerusalem, The Banality Of Evil". Arendt contested the prosecutions view of Eichman, as a sadist. Instead describing him as a dull and unimaginative. A conforming and stereotypical bureaucrat. The Obedience experiments tested whether subjects could be placed in a situation that would make them overcome any moral disquiet they might have over anything they might be asked to do. Milgram's methodologies in many of his experiments were extraordinarily creative, utilizing layers of artifice to produce dramas that extended well beyond the statistical results of his experiment. It is the construction of this human drama, which conveys the dilemma of social experience - what passes between people - rather than what might reside within them - that is one of the inspirations for this reenactment project. Milgram studied under Solomon Asch at Harvard, who is also famous for his experiments in conformity, Asch was applying Gestalt psychology to social relations and designing experiments to examine conformity. Apart from the obedience experiments Milgram conducted an extraordinary experiment into a possible correlation between violence and screeen violence. The experiment, involved an episode of the CBS program "Medical Center," with subjects viewing one of three endings. Ultimately its results were inconclusive but it remains absolutely unique in its methodology. Stanley Milgram died of a heart attack in 1984. He is survived by his widow Alexandra Milgram. For an in depth article about Milgram's work see Thomas Blass's recent feature for Psychology Today:  The Man Who Shocked The World