The workshops will centre on three points on the forefront of scientific investigation, and which exist in a captivating overlap between theatre and the expertise of consciousness. The Etherdome will be a new piece of theatre concerning the discovery of anaesthesia; exploring the impression it has had on surgical follow and on the three men who every claimed to have found it. Working with anaesthetists and medical historians, Penny Dreadful will use humour, music and vitality to create exciting theatre about a captivating interval of historical past and its influence on medicine and society. The Etherdome will premiere on the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe 2011 after which tour. ‘Stream’ is the research and development phase of a collaboration between visual artist Emma Hunter and coronary heart imaging consultant Philip Kilner of the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Price, a socially awkward outsider, taught himself the fundamentals of evolutionary biology and formulated an … Read More