Calabi-Yau (play)

Calabi-Yau (play)

Calabi-Yau is a 2001 play written by playwright Susanna Speier with songs and music by Stefan Weisman, based on physicist Brian Greene's national bestseller "The Elegant Universe".

The musical play is a multimedia sub-subatomic adventure story about a documentarian lost in an inner loop of an abandoned track of the New York Subway system. He encounters MTA workers who are attempting to prove string theory by building a particle accelerator in abandoned subway tunnels beneath downtown New York City. The MTA track workers lead the documentarian to a gatekeeper named Lucy and her grandfather, who is engineering the particle accelerator. A string explains string theory as a Calabi-Yau tells the story of Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian knot.

It was made possible, in part, by The Field and premiered as a workshop production at the Lincoln Center and HERE Arts Center sponsored American Living Room Festival in 2001. Calabi-Yau was produced and performed at HERE in 2002

References

*cite web |url=http://www.curtainup.com/calabiyau.html |title=Calabi-Yau, a CurtainUp review |accessdate=2008-10-05 |publisher=CurtainUp |date=2002-03-17 |author=Les Gutman
*cite web |url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9507E3DE133BF934A15750C0A9649C8B63 |title=THEATER REVIEW; In Abandoned Subway Tunnels, Building a Particle Accelerator |accessdate=2008-10-05 |publisher=New York Times |date=2002-03-27 |author=Neil Genzlinger

External Links

* [http://www.susannaspeier.com http://www.susannaspeier.com/scripts/calabi-yau/] at Susanna Speier's website
* [http://www.stefanweisman.com Stefan Weisman's website]
* [http://www.here.org HERE website]


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