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MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION
SERENDIB
By David Zellnik*
Directed by Carlos Armesto
Puppet Design and Direction by Emily DeCola
In order to save their study, a group of field scientists invite a team of filmmakers to
document their work with Sri Lankan monkeys, but will the results do more harm than good?
A fascinating combination of puppetry and traditional drama, SERENDIB comically examines the fine line
between nature vs. nurture, and just how different we are (or aren’t) from primates.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO A SCHEDULE CONFLICT, THERE IS NO PERFORMANCE ON MARCH 28!
March 29 - April 22, 2007
Previews $25, Regular Performances $30, $15 Students & Seniors
Free for Festival Passholders
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Cast:
Joseph Adams, Geeta Citygirl, Linda Powell, James Rana, PJ Sosko, Nitya Vidyasagar and Richard B. Watson
Production Team
Sets: Ryan Kravetz
Costumes: Jennifer Caprio
Lights: Evan Purcell
Sound: Graham Johnson
Music: Katie Down
Fights & Dialects: Raymond MacAnally
Dramaturgy: Nancy Vitale
Research: André Ford
Production Stage Manager: Wendy Ouellette
Assistant Stage Manager: Rosie Goldman
Casting: Shane/Goldstein Casting
Producer: Renee Blinkwolt
Associate Producer: Robert Askins
READING WEEK
The first public readings of the latest EST-Sloan Commissions.
Admission is $10 to all Readings. FREE for Festival Passholders
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THE GREAT DISMAL
By Gwydion Suilebhan
At a thriving Christian college, the lives of six diverse people gradually become bogged down in the Great Dismal Swamp, where the underground railroad, George Washington’s financial failures, and the complexity theory behind firefly blinking patterns all converge to form a fragile but dangerous ecosystem. Can an entomologist, his undergraduate assistant, his wife, her "alternative healer," the mathematician, and the dean of the college figure out what connects them… before it’s too late.
Tuesday, April 3, 7 PM
LEAVE A LIGHT ON
By Ann Marie Healy*
Robert Trivers, one of the founding fathers of evolutionary biology, meets his match in fellow researcher Helen Bunwick. As the two scientists spar their way across the political minefields of science and education in the late 1970s, they discover deeper motivations for their intellectual quests. The ultimate challenge becomes a research project on deception and self-deception in the evolutionary process. Who is lying to whom? And, in science's survival of the fittest, what will it mean to win?
Wednesday, April 4, 3 PM
CHANCE AND NECESSITY
By Jon Klein
CHANCE AND NECESSITY reveals the secret adventures of Jacques Monod, the Nobel-Prize winning molecular biologist. The astounding events of Monod's early life–battling the German Occupation of Paris alongside his friend Albert Camus, surrendering to an illicit love affair with a young music student, and discovering the bacterial properties that led to Monod's own theories on evolution–are all chronicled and speculated upon by another famous friend–the tortured author, Jerzy Kosinski.
Thursday, April 5, 7 PM
DOCTORS JANE AND ALEXANDER
By Edward Einhorn
Using found, fabricated, and occasionally finagled text, Edward Einhorn explores the life of his grandfather Alexander Wiener, the co-discoverer of the Rh factor in blood, through interviews with his mother Jane Einhorn, a PhD psychologist who recently retired due to a debilitating stroke. In the course of these interviews his grandfather's ambitions and achievements are contrasted with his mother's and ultimately with his own.
Friday, April 6, 7 PM
PERFECT AND CONSTANT
By Rob Askins
It's 1541 and Nicolaus Copernicus is dying in silence. The master behind the modern cosmos refuses to publish his theories. It is up to Georg Joachim Rheticus a brillaint young man with a secret to convince him the world needs to know it moves.
Monday, April 9, 7 PM
EVER MORE INTELLIGENT
By Alex Timbers
Victorian England. Two drunken scientists are enclosed in a laboratory filled with microscopic flesh-eating robots. Uh-oh.
Wednesday, April 25, 7 PM
NOTE DATE CHANGE!!
WORKSHOPS
Presentations of plays further along in development.
Admission is $10 to all Workshops.
FREE for Festival Passholders.
Purchase tickets at theatremania.com or call 212 352 3101
THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD
By Matt Schatz
What drives the quest to create the world's tallest building? In the 1960s everything seemed possible to the engineers and architect who conceived and built the World Trade Center complex. Based on actual events, THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD examines what is gained and what is lost when we try to reach the sky.
Friday, April 13, 7 PM
BY PROXY
By Amy Fox*
BY PROXY follows the story of Sonia, a young doctor working for the top researcher of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, who makes a startling discovery about a closely studied family, which leads to a personal and professional dilemma.
Friday, April 20, 7 PM
GALOIS
By Sung Rno
Math, love and revolution collide in this music theater piece exploring the romantic life of Evariste Galois, who invented a branch of mathematics, Galois Groups, as a teenager, but died at 21, the victim of a tragic duel over a woman amid the radical politics of France in the 1830s.
Monday, April 23, 7 PM
ME AND MARIE CURIE
By Alec Duffy
In this magical drama, Madelyn, a 16-year old science whiz, competes to be selected by NASA for the first "manned" mission to Mars. To help her, she enlists the aid of Marie Curie, who exposes her to the idea that science may ask for more of a personal sacrifice than one bargained for.
Friday, April 27, 7 PM
CABARET SCIENTIFIQUE
Closing Event of the First Light Festival
Admission is FREE
DISCOVER THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SCIENCE. Join us for a power-packed evening of song, dance and comedy--specially comissioned by the EST-Sloan Project to celebrate the mergin of art, science and technology. Quirky, hilarious and endearing, these top acts are sure to close the First Light Festival with a night to remember. Come and celebrate.
Friday, April 27, 10 PM
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