An Experiement With and Air Pump

[danieldwilliam]

I really enjoyed Experiement With An Air Pump.

In a rare night out I went to the theatre.
 

I had a very enjoyable night at the theatre last night. A friend and colleague from my drama group was directing Experiement With An Air Pump.

 

The wikipedia article sums up the plot of the play pretty well but it does come with a spolier warning. I think the play more enjoyable if you don’t read the plot summary.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Experiment_with_an_Air_Pump

 By way of prologue, the play is set in the same house in the days running up to New Years Eve 1799 and 1999. Two families, both headed by a scientist are preparing for the century to come both in terms of advances in their particular fields of scientific endevour and their family.

 The play explores themes of scientific and medical ethics and also gender and family dynamics. In each family the dominant (although I hesitate to use that word) family member is the scientist with their partner an student of the Arts.

 I don’t recall ever seeing a play before that dealt with the differences between Art and Science from the point of view of the scientist.

 

I thought it was very thought provoking and I like the complementary but not interlinked narrative structure.

 I thought the cast strong, the direction crisp and it is such a good play. Art, Science, sex, death, infidelity, gender politics, family dynamics and medical ethics. And funny too. What more could you want from a play?

Really good stuff, go and see it if you can.

It’s on at 7.45 Thursday to Saturday at the Laureston Street Hall, tickets are £10 and selling out fast.

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Comments

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

Well whadayaknow. I have long admired the painting (as I like to call it, "Peter Stringfellow kills a bird") but I didn't know till now it was based on a play. You lives and you learns.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

The painting actually makes an appearance in the prologue. It has a small but perfectly formed cameo.

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