Tuesday, October 30, 2007
THE WATER ENGINE PLAY PERFORMANCE - December 3-4, 2007
CC@MIT -- MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration
presents staged reading of 'The Water Engine' Dec. 3-4
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Cambridge, MA...Catalyst Collaborative at MIT (CC@MIT), a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Underground Railway Theater (URT), continues its series of staged readings with "The Water Engine: An American Fable," an early work by David Mamet.
Two readings of "The Water Engine" will be held: the first on Monday, December 3, at 7 p.m. in Room 34-101 at MIT (50 Vassar St.) and the second on Tuesday, December 4 at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square).
Following the December 3 reading at MIT, there will be a post performance conversation with Rosalind Williams, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology at MIT.
Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University will lead the post performance discussion following the December 4 reading at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre.
Performed in the style of a 1930s radio drama, Jon Lipsky directs a cast of eight, which includes Ken Baltin, Brooke Ditchfield, Khalil Fleming, Michael Kaye, Richard McElvain, Robert Murphy, Vincent E. Siders, and Debra Wise, portraying 30 characters. Sound designer Bill Barclay will recreate the aural feeling of radio presentations.
Seating for both readings of "The Water Engine" is limited; no tickets or reservations are necessary.
CC@MIT is a unique collaboration between MIT and Underground Railway Theater (URT), a 29 year-old community-based professional theater. CC@MIT is dedicated to developing new plays about science to provide the public with a better understanding of our increasingly scientific and technological world. By pairing MIT's expertise in science and technology and URT's artistic excellence and history of community involvement, CC@MIT is poised to make significant contributions to the role of science in society.
A fully staged production of "Q.E.D.," Peter Parnell's play about Nobel Prize-winning physicist and MIT alumnus Richard Feynman (1928-1988), will be CC@MIT's inaugural production when the new Central Square Theater opens in Spring 2008.
For more information on the MIT presentation of "The Water Engine," call (617) 253-ARTS (2787); for more information on Underground Railway Theater and their upcoming performance of "Q.E.D.," call (781) 643-6916 or e-mail gmp@centralsquaretheater.org.
About 'The Water Engine'
First written in 1976 as a radio play, "The Water Engine," is set at the Hall of Science at the1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Factory worker Charles Lang has invented an engine that runs exclusively on distilled water, but when he tries to patent his design he finds himself beset by hoodlum-like attorneys, sinister corporate interests, and oil companies who don't want the competition.
The show was staged at The Public Theater in 1977 and transferred to Broadway in 1978. A made-for-television version first aired in 1992.
Contact:
Lynn Heinemann, MIT Office of the Arts
(617) 253-5351, e-mail heine@media.mit.edu
Gia Podobinski, 
Central Square Theater

(781) 643-6916, e-mail gmp@centralsquaretheater.org
presents staged reading of 'The Water Engine' Dec. 3-4
=============================================================
Cambridge, MA...Catalyst Collaborative at MIT (CC@MIT), a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Underground Railway Theater (URT), continues its series of staged readings with "The Water Engine: An American Fable," an early work by David Mamet.
Two readings of "The Water Engine" will be held: the first on Monday, December 3, at 7 p.m. in Room 34-101 at MIT (50 Vassar St.) and the second on Tuesday, December 4 at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square).
Following the December 3 reading at MIT, there will be a post performance conversation with Rosalind Williams, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology at MIT.
Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University will lead the post performance discussion following the December 4 reading at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre.
Performed in the style of a 1930s radio drama, Jon Lipsky directs a cast of eight, which includes Ken Baltin, Brooke Ditchfield, Khalil Fleming, Michael Kaye, Richard McElvain, Robert Murphy, Vincent E. Siders, and Debra Wise, portraying 30 characters. Sound designer Bill Barclay will recreate the aural feeling of radio presentations.
Seating for both readings of "The Water Engine" is limited; no tickets or reservations are necessary.
CC@MIT is a unique collaboration between MIT and Underground Railway Theater (URT), a 29 year-old community-based professional theater. CC@MIT is dedicated to developing new plays about science to provide the public with a better understanding of our increasingly scientific and technological world. By pairing MIT's expertise in science and technology and URT's artistic excellence and history of community involvement, CC@MIT is poised to make significant contributions to the role of science in society.
A fully staged production of "Q.E.D.," Peter Parnell's play about Nobel Prize-winning physicist and MIT alumnus Richard Feynman (1928-1988), will be CC@MIT's inaugural production when the new Central Square Theater opens in Spring 2008.
For more information on the MIT presentation of "The Water Engine," call (617) 253-ARTS (2787); for more information on Underground Railway Theater and their upcoming performance of "Q.E.D.," call (781) 643-6916 or e-mail gmp@centralsquaretheater.org.
About 'The Water Engine'
First written in 1976 as a radio play, "The Water Engine," is set at the Hall of Science at the1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Factory worker Charles Lang has invented an engine that runs exclusively on distilled water, but when he tries to patent his design he finds himself beset by hoodlum-like attorneys, sinister corporate interests, and oil companies who don't want the competition.
The show was staged at The Public Theater in 1977 and transferred to Broadway in 1978. A made-for-television version first aired in 1992.
Contact:
Lynn Heinemann, MIT Office of the Arts
(617) 253-5351, e-mail heine@media.mit.edu
Gia Podobinski, 
Central Square Theater

(781) 643-6916, e-mail gmp@centralsquaretheater.org
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