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May 29, 30, 31
The young Einstein dreams...
Berne, Switzerland, 1905: Einstein is a modest patent clerk in a new marriage, struggling to make ends meet while in the back of his mind re-conceiving time!
This brilliant new stage adaptation by Wesley Savick of Alan Lightman's internationally acclaimed novel Einstein's Dreams will be performed by Boston's Underground Railway Theater. The play, an inventive, poetic and charming work, was the inaugural event in a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Underground Railway Theater, conceived to develop new plays about science. The performances will be followed by informal discussions with guest writers.
Thursday, May 29, 8:00 PM
Alan Lightman - post-performance discussion
Lightman's novel Einstein's Dreams was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. Both a distinguished physicist and an accomplished novelist, Lightman was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities.
Friday, May 30, 8:00 PM
Walter Isaacson - post-performance discussion
Isaacson is President of the Aspen Institute. He has been Chairman of CNN and the editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe.
Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM
Alan J. Friedman - post-performance discussion
Co-author of Einstein as Myth and Muse, published by Cambridge University Press. For 22 years Dr. Friedman served as Director of the New York Hall of Science, New York City's public science-technology center.
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