Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World

Thu. Feb 21, 2019 at 8:00pm PST
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Price: $25.00
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Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World

Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Series and Riddle Productions encore a one-of-a-kind theatrical event direct from New York and sold-out performances in Rome and Asia - neither play nor lecture!


Harvard-educated, molecular biologist, visual artist and provocative underground philosopher, Steven Friedman has the answers to life’s big questions.

 

"A genius philosopher...genius of molecular biology" - The New York Times

 


Using personal narrative, poetry, art, and science, he delivers a spell-binding performance reflecting his prismatic, transformative and deeply consoling vision of the world. Friedman offers a solution to the world’s pain based not on belief or faith but on logical rigor – a philosophy starting from Kierkegaard’s story of an ancient torture device, Phalaris’s bull, that turns the terrible sounds of pain into music.

"He's not your typical playwright; he's a bona fide genius. [It's] as close as you're likely to come to receiving an exclusive tour...of a great mind." - Talkin' Broadway

​To create is to enter Phalaris’s bull, and our pain becomes beauty.



 

Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 8pm

Tickets: $25
Proceeds support the Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Campaign

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The Main Stage 1211 4th street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
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