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Calculus at The New End Theatre
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Date:  Thursday, August 24, 2004
Time: 
6:00pm pre-performance dinner at Tara Thai Restaurant
7:00pm performance at The New End Theatre
Venue: 
Pre-performance dinner
Tara Thai Restaurant
102 Heath Street
London NW3
 
Performance
The New End Theatre
7 New End
Hampstead
London NW3 1JD
 
Tube: Hampstead
Deadline:  August 20, 2004
 
Join fellow Stanford alums on Tuesday 24th August to see a production of Stanford Professor Emeritus Carl Djerassi's Calculus at The New End Theatre in Hampstead. In addition to attending the event, we will have the special opportunity to meet with Professor Djerassi over a pre-performance dinner at the Tara Thai Restaurant, (102 Heath St., NW3) before the show (starting at 6pm).
 
Calculus
Directed by Andy Jordan, Designed by Michael Taylor, Lighting by Chris Corner With Lynette Edwards, Michael Fenner, David Gant, John Kane, Roger May, Susan Sheridan and Nick Wilton
 
Sir Isaac Newton, England’s foremost scientist, has accused the German polymath, Gottfried Leibniz, of scientific plagiarism. Scandal ensues. In 1712 the Royal Society establishes an anonymous commission of eleven good men to adjudicate. But has their decision already been taken for them, elsewhere?
 
With stunning period costumes, settings and music, Calculus offers intrigue, colourful characters, plenty of laughs – and a surprising twist in its tail ...
 
Visit the site www.djerassi.com for further information.
 
At Stanford since 1959 as a professor of chemistry, Professor Djerassi's many scientific awards include being one of the few American scientists to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (for his work on the Pill) and the National Medal of Technology (for promoting new approaches to insect control). A member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as many foreign academies, Djerassi has received 19 honorary doctorates together with numerous other honors, such as the first Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the first Award for the Industrial Application of Science from the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Chemical Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal.
 
After his extraordinarily successful dual career in academic and industrial chemistry, Dr. Djerassi began his "third intellectual career" in literature with the 1988 publishing of a first collection of short stories. His novels include Cantor's Dilemma; The Bourbaki Gambit; Marx, Deceased; Menachem's Seed, and NO as well as two autobiographies: Steroids Made it Possible and The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse.
 
In 1997, he has started writing "science-in-theatre" plays. The first, An Immaculate Misconception, premiered at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was subsequently staged in London, San Francisco, New York, Vienna, Cologne, Munich, Sundsvall, Stockholm, Sofia, Geneva, Tokyo and Seoul. The play has been translated into 9 languages and also published in book form in English, German, Spanish and Swedish. Oxygen (co-authored with Roald Hoffmann) was his second production and premiered in April 2001 at the San Diego Repertory Theatre; the show then traveled to Würzburg, London and subsequently in 2003 to Seoul, Tokyo, New Zealand, as well as Toronto; Ottawa; Madison, WI; Columbus, OH; and Bologna. It has already been translated into 10 languages. His third "science-in-theatre" play, Calculus and his first "non-scientific" play, Ego, opened in 2003 in San Francisco and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, respectively. A modified version of Ego opened in London in March 2004 under the title Three On a Couch. Under the auspices of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, he founded an artists' colony near Woodside, California, which provides residences and studio space for approximately seventy artists per year in the visual arts, literature, choreography and music. Over 1300 artists have passed through that program since its inception.
 
Professor Djerassi also happens to be married to the distinguished biographer and Stanford Professor of English Diane W. Middlebrook, and the two live in San Francisco and London.
 
BOOKING:
 
We need confirmed bookings ASAP! Please RSVP via email if you would like to attend to: - events@stanfordalumni.org.uk .
 
Payments: Paypal - see below.
 
Queries:
  • Up to 16th August, call our Events Director - Lesley Anne Hunt on: 0794 1184205.
  • From 16th to 20th August, contact Derrick Chow on: derrick.chow@virgin.net
Closing date: 20th August.
 
Event Price - (£17) for the play and (£15) pp. for the dinner. (subject to change)
 
Theatre Address
 
7 New End, Hampstead, London NW3 1JD
Tube: Hampstead
 
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