Mad Cow Theatre to Host the 2016 Science Play Festival

Mad Cow Theatre is delighted to announce the 2016 Science Play Festival, running March 24-26 in the Zehngebot-Stonerock Theatre. This event is the third annual Science Play Festival for Mad Cow, which will explore in three play readings the many intersections between art and science.

This year's three plays - each to be read by a cast of Mad Cow regulars - will be Nick Payne's Constellations, Sarah Treem's The How and the Why and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, often called Stoppard's greatest work.

Constellations, which premiered in London in 2012, is a romantic journey that begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman but ultimately explores love, friendship and free will against the backdrop of quantum physics. In The How and the Why, first produced in 2011 by the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., evolution and emotion collide in a thought-provoking play about science, family and survival of the fittest.

The festival returns this year to Arcadia, which was first staged in London in 1993 and which Mad Cow produced in its old Magnolia Avenue theatre in 2005. Stoppard's brilliant play moves back and forth in time between 1809 and the present on an elegant British country estate where an Arcadian landscape is being transformed. A precocious 13-year-old, a hermit and Lord Byron all figure into a comical story about the nature of truth and time, as two competing modern-day scholars try to figure out just what happened on the estate 20 or so years earlier and get it all spectacularly wrong.

Bobbie Bell will direct The How and the Why, Ame Livingston will direct Constellations and Eric Zivot will direct Arcadia. Casts will be announced later. A moderated talkback will follow each reading.

The reading-series schedule will be:

• The How and the Why, 8 p.m. Thursday March 24
• Constellations, 8 p.m. Friday March 25
• Arcadia, 8 p.m. Saturday March 26.

All tickets are $10. A Mad Scientist pass is available, which will include all three readings for $24. Press Approved Files - Press/social media approved image files for the Science Play Festival are available here. If you need any assistance or have any other media related questions about Mad Cow Theatre, please contact our Marketing Department via email at news@madcowtheatre.com.

The Science Play Festival runs March 24-26, 2016 in the Zehngebot-Stonerock Theatre at Mad Cow Theatre, 54 West Church St. (second floor) in downtown Orlando (Click here for directions). Performances are at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $10. A three-play Mad Scientist pass is $24. Tickets are available online at madcowtheatre.com or by calling the Mad Cow Theatre box office at 407-297-8788 ext. 1. Copyright © 2015 Mad Cow Theatre Company, All rights reserved.

Mad Cow Theatre is a 501(c)(3) arts organization funded by The State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs, United Arts of Central Florida, the Downtown Development Board, the Florida Theatrical Association, Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program, and members of the Central Florida community just like you.

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