Posted 11:32 a.m. Monday, July 1, 2019
Event features listening, conversation following play readings.
Event features listening, conversation following play readings
The unique partnership among The Pump House, The La Crosse Public Library and UW-La Crosse’s Murphy Library is called “P.S. Let’s Talk.” It’s designed as a “page to stage” experience of listening to performers read from a play on topics of concern.
The 10-part series brings the community together for the first time from 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 12, at The Pump House, 119 King St. Participants will listen to “Einstein’s Dreams,” a collection of vignettes adapted from the novel by Alan Lightman.
The play, adapted for stage and performed several times — even as a ballet, is a collection of small fictional imaginative stories on time that Einstein dreams while working on his theory of relativity. It will be followed by a moderated talk-back with play director Anne Drecktrah and community expert Emily Schiavone, assistant professor of engineering, mathematics and chemistry at Viterbo University. The event gives the audience a chance to participate in a thought-provoking and approachable community conversation about time, relativity, physics and what it means.
If you go
What: P.S. Let’s Talk
Where: The Pump House, 119 King St., La Crosse
When: 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 12. Doors open at 6:30, performance at 7
Admission: Free and open to the public.