Phalaris’s Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World

About This Show

Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Series and Riddle Productions encore a one-of-a-kind theatrical event, direct from New York and sold-out performances in Rome and Asia. Harvard-educated molecular biologist, visual artist, and provocative visionary philosopher Steven Friedman has the answers to life’s big questions. Using personal narrative, poetry, art, and science, he delivers a spellbinding performance reflecting his prismatic, transformative, and deeply consoling vision of the world. Neither play nor lecture, Friedman offers a solution to the world’s pain based not on belief or faith but on logical rigor — a philosophy starting from Kierkegaard’s story of an ancient torture device, Phalaris’s bull, that turns the terrible sounds of pain into music. To create is to enter Phalaris’s bull, and our pain becomes beauty.

Show Details

Running Time: 1hr 30min (0 intermissions)
Dates: One Night Only: February 21, 2019
Ticket Office: 3103949779