***THE TABLES TURNED***
Wednesday 9th September, 8pm
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey
A performance by the BSHS Strolling Players, as part of the British Science
Festival
'The Tables Turned' takes its audience to a dinner-party séance of the
1860s.
A film will show characters - including a physicist, poet, physician and
medium - attempting to summon the spirits.
Through conversations on, and responses to, the evening's events -
table-rapping, ghostly messages and emanations - questions over the
authority of men of science in the realm of the supernatural, and over
scientific methods themselves, will be raised.
What is the limit of scientific knowledge? How do we test phenomena? Can we
believe what we see? The audience and characters will analyse the problems
of fact-making and observation, of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, in the
cultural context of Victorian Britain.
http://bahistoryofscience.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/the-tables-turned/
To book tickets please see:
http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/forms/festival/events/showevent2.asp?EventID=14
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