| When you think Broadway, you don’t necessarily think first about plays that make science its point of focus. Or at least
you didn’t before Copenhagen hit the stage in 1998 and dramatically told the story of Niels Bohr’s shadowy meeting with Werner Heisenberg back in 1941. Since then, science plays have been going strong. Just take this for example: L.A. Theatre Works recently launched its Relativity Series, a “monthly broadcast featuring plays that explore the impact of science on individuals and society.” You can download the series as a podcast (iTunes – Feed – Web Site), and it so happens that the series kicks off with a Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play called Proof, starring Anne Heche. Written by David Auburn in 2001, Proof is not as academic as it sounds. The New York Times called it “An exhilarating and assured new play . . . accessible and compelling as a detective story.” And Hollywood turned the play into a film in 2005, with Gwyneth Paltrow playing the lead. So you shouldn’t have any reservations about immersing yourself in this dramatic work. Download it, sync it, and get ready to listen to a tale of love and death, intellectual adventure and paranoia, and a sprinkling of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Tell a Friend About Open Culture
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