PHALARIS'S BULL Encores at Santa Monica Playhouse

Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Series and Riddle Productions encore a one-of-a-kind theatrical event direct from New York- neither play nor lecture - Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World.

Harvard-educated molecular biologist, visual artist and provocative visionary philosopher, Steven Friedman has the answers to life's big questions. Using personal narrative, poetry, art, and science, he delivers a spell-binding performance reflecting his prismatic, eclectic, 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 in which an ancient torture device, Phalaris's bull, turns the terrible sounds of pain into music.

Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World premiered the 2015-16 Winter Season at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, NYC. For more about the show, go to solvingtheriddleplay.com.

As set projections, the aphoristic book Epistemic Dyads will be published as part of the filmed performance, with each ticket a hand-written page.

WHEN: Friday, May 12, 2017 at 8:00 PM.

ADMISSION: $25. All proceeds support the Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Campaign. For tickets, call The Playhouse Box Office at 310 394 9779x1 or buy online at SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com..

WHERE: Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th Street (between Wilshire & Arizona) in the heart of downtown Santa Monica.

Santa Monica Playhouse is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission.

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