Which play will we read this time?

After the beautiful moment of reading we had last World Theatre Day, we’re already preparing for the next session of Reading Theatre With Science!

 

The first thing we have to do is choose the play and we’re undecided between four options, would you like to help us?… Until 15 April, follow this link to take part in the vote. Then we’ll translate the text into Portuguese, with the help of the Collaborative Translation Project‘s volunteer team, so that everything is ready for the reading on 22 May, which we’ll be announcing soon.

 

People interested in joining the reading and/or the translation can sign up by emailing ler@marioneteatro.com

 

Below is a synopsis of each work, so you can get to know them better.

 

“Trumpery“, de Peter Parnell

It is 1858. Charles Darwin struggles to finish On the Origin of Species and give the world his theory of natural selection, while coping with family illness and his own impending loss of faith. Meanwhile, halfway around the world, Alfred Russel Wallace, a brilliant but virtually unknown explorer and Utopian socialist, has come up with the exact same theory. The one person he sends his abstract to is Charles Darwin. Can Darwin claim priority? And what will happen if he doesn’t finish his own book in time? Vibrantly comic and deeply moving, Trumpery examines what it means to live in a Darwinian universe from the points of view of the men who discovered the idea.

 

“The Ruby Sunrise“, de Rinne Groff

Hailed by The Boston Globe as a gem, “The Ruby Sunrise” begins when a 1920s tomboy feverishly works to develop her latest invention—a little something called “television.” Twenty-five years later, her daughter will stop at nothing to bring her mother’s incredible story to life during TV’s Golden Age. But will it get the truth it deserves?

 

“Rain Dance“, de Lanford Wilson

In a ramshackle cantina in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the night of 15 July 1945, four people await the test of the atomic bomb. Each of them is connected directly or indirectly with the top-secret Trinity project, and over the course of the evening the horror of what is about to be unleashed on the world begins to dawn on them. As tensions mount, and questions of science, religion and morality collide, “Rain Dance” makes palpable the thrilling and terrifying journey of our first steps into the atomic age.

 

“A number“, de Caryl Churchill

This play confirms Churchill’s status as the first dramatist of the 21st century. On the face of it, it is about human cloning… But like all Churchill’s best plays, “A number” deals with both the essentials and the extremities of human experience… The questions this brilliant, harrowing play asks are almost unanswerable, which is why they must be asked.