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29 - English Language and Literature

University of Oxford

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Article title

Des 'Lien significatifs': Luca Ronconi et les scientifiques ['Meaningful Joinings': Luca Ronconi and the Scientists]

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

Title of journal

Alternatives Theatrales

Article number

Volume number

102-3

Issue number

First page of article

ISSN of journal

0774-4145

Year of publication

2009

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

Yes

English abstract

This article explores the plans of Stephen Jay Gould, the renowned paleontologist and popular exponent of evolution, to develop and star in a one-man show portraying Darwin. The show never happened, but the plans for it can be found in unpublished correspondence between Gould and the theatre director Luca Ronconi and public engagement of science organizer Pino Donghi. The article reveals Ronconi and Donghi's explanations of what kind of performance they envisioned from Gould; most importantly, this allows us to speculate upon what new directions this nascent collaboration was likely to take the now well-established genre of the "science play".