QED by Peter Parnell Staged by Mike Cuba
April 10, 11 at 8:00 PM and April 12 at 2:00 PM
Barefoot Productions is presenting QED, by Peter Parnell and Directed by Mike Cuba. This one-man show set in the late 1980s is an evening with Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize winning nuclear physicist
who helped develop the atomic bomb, demonstrated the failure of the rubber O-rings in the Challenger shuttle disaster, developed the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and battled cancer in his later life.
Of special interest to the ethics committee are his thoughts on how to treat a recurring cancer that had already taken one of his kidneys and was threatening to take the other. Treat it or ignore it, living out his remaining days without extraordinary measures?
If treat it, how? Chemo, radiation, thermal? What are the benefits, and what are the downsides? This is a guy who told his doctor that if he was slipping away, either on the operating table or elsewhere, to be sure to wake him up!!!!
He wanted to see what happened when he died!!!!!
"Who knew quantum electrodynamics could be so much fun?" —NY Post
"The play itself is a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of how to face the end of his life…" —The New Yorker
April 10, 11 at 8:00 PM and April 12 at 2:00 PM
Barefoot Productions is presenting QED, by Peter Parnell and Directed by Mike Cuba. This one-man show set in the late 1980s is an evening with Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize winning nuclear physicist
who helped develop the atomic bomb, demonstrated the failure of the rubber O-rings in the Challenger shuttle disaster, developed the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and battled cancer in his later life.
Of special interest to the ethics committee are his thoughts on how to treat a recurring cancer that had already taken one of his kidneys and was threatening to take the other. Treat it or ignore it, living out his remaining days without extraordinary measures?
If treat it, how? Chemo, radiation, thermal? What are the benefits, and what are the downsides? This is a guy who told his doctor that if he was slipping away, either on the operating table or elsewhere, to be sure to wake him up!!!!
He wanted to see what happened when he died!!!!!
"Who knew quantum electrodynamics could be so much fun?" —NY Post
"The play itself is a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of how to face the end of his life…" —The New Yorker
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