Q.E.D.
Opening Night: February 17, 2001
Closing: June 10, 2001
Theater: Vivian Beaumont
Peter Parnell’s QED stars Alan Alda as the physicist Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate with a larger than life personality and a career that included developing the atom bomb and explaining the puzzle of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion. The two-character play was given its world premiere last spring at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum.
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November 19, 2001
The lecturer, as lecturers are wont to do, poses a rhetorical question. Is it possible, he asks, indicating himself, that ”this thing walking back and forth in front of you, talking to you,” is in fact simply ”a great glob” of atoms?
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