THE OPEN BOOK THEATRE COMPANY
IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS PRESENTATION OF

STRINGS BY CAROLE BUGGÉ

FEATURING KEIR DULLEA (“2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY”)

MIA DILLON AND WARREN KELLEY

A new play about elegant, cutting-edge physics

thoroughly entangled with human pain, passion, and desire

THE OPEN BOOK is pleased to present the premiere of STRINGS,  a new play of elegant, cutting-edge physics thoroughly entangled with deeply familiar—and unruly—human pain, passion, and desire by CAROLE BUGGÉ, directed by MARVIN KAYE. The playfeatures KEIR DULLEA (“2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY”) and MIA DILLON (Broadway: CRIMES OF THE HEART [Tony Nominee], OUR TOWN) and WARREN KELLEY.  The presentation begins previews Wednesday, December 13^th at 8:15 pm and opens Saturday, December 16^th at 8:15 pm. Performances continue Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:15 pm through January 6^th.  Tickets are $18.00; $10 for students and seniors. TDF accepted.  For reservations please call 212-362-0329.   STRINGSis being performed at the 78^TH STREET THEATRE LAB located at 236 W. 78th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam.

On a train en route to London to attend the play Copenhagen, two English physicists, upper-class cosmologist George and brilliant working-class String theorist Rory, along with George’s American cosmologist wife June, pursue their complex ideas about physics—a conversation that barely masks just-below-the-surface deceit and lies. OldCambridgeUniversity classmates George and Rory dig at one another, with June caught in the middle. In the process they also unwittingly excavate their scars of jealousy, loss and grief, finally exposing their deepest longings for meaning in a questionably trustworthy universe.  This train ride firmly intertwines cool science with the heat of emotional desire and longing.  STRINGS is loosely based on the real-life train ride event in which American physicists Burt Ovrut, Paul Steinhardt and English physicist Neil Turok tweaked the Big Bang theory—and changed it forever.