Re: QED: A Review.

[Bob & Kathie Yeend <ryeend@EARTHLINK.NET>]

I went to QED a week ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. My perspecitive is that
of a former H.S. physics teachers who required his students to read "Surely
You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" the summer before starting my class, to give
them an idea of what science in general and physics in particular is about.

It would be a most worthy field trip, but I suspect tickets might be a
problem; with three weeks lead time, we were only able to attend a week end
performance because someone else cancelled. Tickets during the week are
probably a bit more available.

IMHO, if you can go, by all means do so.
bob
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Bob and Kathie Yeend <ryeend@earthlink.net>


> From: brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>
> Reply-To: "phys-l@lists.nau.edu: Forum for Physics
> Educators"<PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 08:59:21 -0500
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: QED: A Review.
>
> This is a brief abstract of the play review composed by David
> Goodstein who is vice-provost of  CalTech and co-author with
> Judith Goodstein of Feynman's Lost Lecture.
>
> It seems like a worthy target for a student trip, for those
> in striking distance of LA.
>
>
> QED is a play about Feynman.
> It continues until 13 May at the
> Mark Taper Forum,
> 135 N Grand Avenue,
> Los Angeles, CA-90012, USA,
>
> (tel. +1 213 628 2772;
> e-mail tickets@ctgla.com;
> www.centertheatregroup.com)
>
> "The play takes place in Feynman's office at
> the California Institute of Technology.
>
> "There are lots of good laugh lines, and Alda delivers them
> impeccably. There is physics in Alda's long monologue,
> enough of it, and done right, to tell the audience that
> it was physics that lit Feynman's fire, and the rest was
> window dressing.
>
> "There have been important plays written about scientists.
> Bertold Brecht's Galileo comes to mind as does In the
> Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer by Heinar Kipphardt.
> More recently, Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, portrayed
> various versions of Werner Heisenberg's visit to Niels Bohr
> during the Second World War.
>
> " This is not a play of ideas, but rather a character
> sketch. Ah, but what a character! Parnell's QED, as played
> by Alan Alda, is a fitting tribute to an old friend of mine
> who just happened to be one of the most singular
> characters to roam the Earth in the 20th century."
>
>
> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
> Eureka!