NP SCIENCE AND THEATRE: the September 2002 issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

[Doug Millison]

Some of you will find this interesting:

SCIENCE AND THEATRE: the September 2002 issue of
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 	

For further information, please contact:
Howard Cattermole 
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 
howard_cattermole at materials.org.uk 
020 7451 7333 

	 	
27 September 2002 

keywords 
Public Dialogue - science, Literature & creative
writing, Media & multimedia, Performing arts, History 
	
  	
 
  	A special themed issue of Interdisciplinary Science
Reviews exploring interconnections between science and
theatre. Scientists, historians, playwrights,
directors, and others discuss representations of
science in theatre, promotion of science through
theatre, and scientific practice as theatre.

Beyond words: science and visual theatre
PHILIP BALL (Nature, London, UK)

The scientist on the stage: a survey
M. A. ORTHOFER (NY, USA)

The experimental seduction of mechanistic modernism in
Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Dynamo’ and the Federal Theatre
Project’s ‘Altars of steel’
DENNIS G. JERZ (UWEC, WI, USA)

Contemporary ‘science-in-theatre’: a rare genre
CARL DJERASSI (Stanford University, CA, USA)

‘Remembering Miss Meitner’: an attempt to forge
history into drama
ROBERT MARC FRIEDMAN (University of Oslo, Norway)

What history of science can learn from Michael Frayn’s
‘Copenhagen’
KLAUS HENTSCHEL (Göttingen, Germany)

Scientific lectures: a history of performance
DAVID KNIGHT (University of Durham, UK)

‘Never talk about science, show it to them’: the
lecture theatre of the Royal Institution
FRANK A. J. L. JAMES (Royal Institution, UK)

Mind the gap: virtual reality and theatre history
RICHARD BEACHAM, DREW BAKER, and MARTIN BLAZEBY
(University of Warwick, UK)

Plus book and play reviews and other shorter
contributions. 



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