RE:Design: A Dramatization of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin and Asa Gray (2010)
Date and Time
October 21, 2010
06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT
A one-act play performed by the Menagerie Theatre Company and a panel discussion with Paul Bourne, Janet Browne, and Donald Pfister
RE: Design is a fascinating dramatization of the 30 years of correspondence between Charles Darwin in England and Asa Gray in Boston, produced by the English theatre group, Menagerie, and commissioned by the Darwin Correspondence Project at the University of Cambridge.
The one-act play was followed by a panel discussion with RE:Design director Paul Bourne, Janet Browne, the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Botany and Director of the Harvard Herbaria. Commissioned by the Darwin Project, Cambridge, UK. Written by Craig Baxter and directed by Paul Bourne, Menagerie Theatre Company, Cambridge, UK.