Einstein's Dreams
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 19, 2001
Closed Nov 18, 2001
Opened Oct 19, 2001
Closed Nov 18, 2001
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Adapted from the novel by Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams explores the complex and illusory nature of time, as imagined by one of the twentieth century's greatest minds. Part of SF-The Sci-Fi Event.
EXTENDED DATES!
Nov. 9, 10, 16, 17 @ 10:30pm
Nov. 11 @ 3pm
Nov. 18 @ 8pm
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Kraine Theater
85 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003
The Kraine Theater is the Flagship of the Horse Trade Theater Group. It is a beautiful 99 seat house with high ceilings and fixed theater chairs. The Kraine allows both the feeling of spaciousness and the intimacy of a smaller space.
85 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003
The Kraine Theater is the Flagship of the Horse Trade Theater Group. It is a beautiful 99 seat house with high ceilings and fixed theater chairs. The Kraine allows both the feeling of spaciousness and the intimacy of a smaller space.
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Whether or not the entire text of Alan Lightman's imaginative 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams is contained in the Aporia Players/Tobacco Bar adaptation, I can't say with certainty. Maybe it just seemed that way. Without question, the piece retains most of Lightman's light-footed prose and, in doing so, raises the literary value of this year's Fringe by several notches--not to mention its good-taste level.
It was Lightman's amusing and also profound notion to spin a series of fantasies around Einstein's formulation of his relativity theory. The author begins with Einstein sorting out his ideas in the spring of 1905, theorizing a world wherein time slows down and speeds up. Lightman then ima[...]