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CC@MIT--MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration presents staged reading of 'The Water Engine' Dec. 3-4
Cambridge, MA... Catalyst Collaborative at MIT (CC@MIT),
a collaboration between the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
and Underground
Railway Theater (URT), continues its series of staged readings
with "The Water Engine: An American Fable," an early work by David
Mamet.
Two readings of "The Water Engine" will be held: the first on
Monday, December 3, at 7 p.m. in Room
34-101 at MIT (50 Vassar St.) and
the second on Tuesday, December 4 at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge
Family YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square).
Following the December 3 reading at MIT, there will be a post performance
conversation with Rosalind
Williams, Bern Dibner Professor of the History
of Science and Technology at MIT.
Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning,
School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University will lead the post performance
discussion following the December 4 reading at the Cambridge Family YMCA
Theatre.
Performed in the style of a 1930s radio drama, Jon Lipsky directs a
cast of eight, which includes Ken Baltin, Brooke Ditchfield, Khalil Fleming,
Michael Kaye, Richard McElvain, Robert Murphy, Vincent E. Siders, and
Debra Wise, portraying 30 characters. Sound designer Bill Barclay will
recreate the aural feeling of radio presentations.
Seating for both readings of "The Water Engine" is limited;
no tickets or reservations are necessary.
CC@MIT is a unique collaboration between MIT and Underground Railway
Theater (URT), a 29 year-old community-based professional theater.
CC@MIT is dedicated to developing new plays about science to provide
the public with a better understanding of our increasingly scientific
and technological world. By pairing MIT's expertise in science and
technology and URT's artistic excellence and history of community involvement,
CC@MIT is poised to make significant contributions to the role of science
in society.
A fully staged production of "Q.E.D.," Peter Parnell's play
about Nobel Prize-winning physicist and MIT alumnus Richard Feynman
(1928-1988), will be CC@MIT's inaugural production when the new Central
Square Theater opens in Spring 2008.
For more information on the MIT presentation of "The Water Engine," call
(617) 253-ARTS (2787); for more information on Underground Railway
Theater and their upcoming performance of "Q.E.D.," call
(781) 643-6916 or e-mail gmp@centralsquaretheater.org.
About 'The Water Engine'
First written in 1976 as a radio play, "The Water Engine," is
set at the Hall of Science at the1934 Century of Progress Exposition
in Chicago. Factory worker Charles Lang has invented an engine that runs
exclusively on distilled water, but when he tries to patent his design
he finds himself beset by hoodlum-like attorneys, sinister corporate
interests, and oil companies who don't want the competition.
The show was staged at The Public Theater in 1977 and transferred to
Broadway in 1978. A made-for-television version first aired in 1992. |
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