Programme of Events

STAGE
Date: 21st October 2012, 4pm
Venue: Samuel Beckett, Trinity College Dublin
Contact: Mary Colclough, [email protected]

STAGE - Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration - housed at the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, runs every two years and aims to identify the best new play about science and technology worldwide. STAGE comes to Dublin as a result of the efforts of CRANN, working in collaboration with Nancy Kalawek, Director of STAGE.
Ear to the Edge of Time, by Australian playwright Alana Valentine, is the winner of the 2012 STAGE International Script Competition. The play will be performed as a staged reading at Trinity College Dublin’s Samuel Beckett Theatre on the 21st of October 2012.

Ms Valentines script was chosen from over 200 entries from a dozen different countries by a distinguished panel of judges including Dr. Robert C. Richardson and Dr. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureates in Physics; Tony Kushner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Awards, Olivier Award and Emmy Award among others; David Lindsay Abaire, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Dr David Wineland, winner of the USA Benjamin Franklin medal and National Medal of Science and Donald Margulies, Pulitzer Prize and Obie Award Winning playwright. The top honour is coveted among playwrights for the prestige and opportunities it brings, as well as for its sizeable $10,000 prize.
The staged reading will be performed by professional Irish actors on Sunday, the 21st of October in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Trinity College. The prize will be awarded to Ms Valentine on the night by Nancy Kalawek and a distinguished member of the judging committee.

More Info: http://crann.tcd.ie/Education-Outreach/STAGE.aspx