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THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS
theatre + science
A mind-melting, jargon-free, whistlestop tour of leading edge Quantum Physics.
a co-production with Oxford Playhouse
and Leeds Met Studio Theatre
MOST RECENT REVIEW (from Oxford March 2010)
"I cannot understate how much I approve of this show... I was tempted to have children just so that I could take them... It all works very, very well... Slick, smart and non-patronising The Ethics of Progress is proof positive that the art of the intellectual talk can be brought to the mainstream to enthuse and entertain, and can even sneak some education in through the back door." full review here
" Mind-blowing stuff " The Scotsman
" I went in with a heavy heart thinking the subject would be
over my head. I came out wanting to help change the world. Brilliant.
" The Guardian
"The Ethics of Progress" is our mind-melting, jargon-free, whistle
stop tour of leading edge Quantum Physics in which....
Artistic Director Jon Spooner tells the story of how his understanding
of the world and everything in was radically altered by our conversations
with Professor
Vlatko Vedral. Vlatko heads up the Quantum
Information Group at the University of Leeds. No really, he does.
We met him during the writing process for Tangle and he twisted
our heads explaining how the world doesn't work in the ways we'd always
assumed it did.
Inspired by Vlatko's research and with support from Oxford Playhouse
and Leeds Met Studio Theatre we've made a show that explores the imagined,
actual, ethical, political, religious and philosophical impacts of leading
edge research in Quantum Physics.
Jon invites his audience to consider how current developments in science-that-ain't-fiction will irretrievably change the world as we currently view it. By avoiding jargon and explaining in straightforward terms the concepts of Superposition, Wave Particle Duality, Quantum Entanglement and Teleportation, ETHICS… pushes theoretical physics into real life situations and imagines the world as it might be in the not-too-distant future.
Welcome to the future. We hope we'll make it in one piece.
"The thing about the future is, by the time it happens,
it's already too late....."
Written by Jon Spooner, Chris Thorpe and Clare Duffy
Directed by Amy Hodge and Jon Spooner
Design + Visuals by Mic Pool
Associate Artist and Consultant: Professor Vlatko Vedral
STATUS
Scheduled: out there NOW; available for booking
Funded by: Arts Council of England, Oxford Playhouse, Leeds Met Studio
Theatre, Institute of Physics