Albert Einstein Meets Doctor Who,[1][2][3][4] also called Doctor Who Meets Albert Einstein,[5] was a short stage play performed at The Young Scientist Exhibition[5] in the Royal Dublin Society[3] in February 2005. Produced by the Institute of Physics[5] and Vermillion Productions[2] in association with BBC Worldwide, the stage play served as a way to explain the concepts of relativity to children in an entertaining way.[5][4]
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- Doctor Who - Declan Brennan[2][3][5]
- Albert Einstein - Donal Courtney[2]
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A promotional image for the show's documentation in Who-ology: The Official Miscellany.
- The show was produced by Brennan after he won a tender to produce a show from BT Ireland as part of their sponsorship of Young Scientist Exhibition, working with Courtney as director and Richards as writer.[2]
- The show was performed twice-daily[2] in the Royal Dublin Society.[3] The largest the audience was for the show was circa 1,200 adults and children on the final weekend of performances.[2][3] Over 2,500 people saw the play in total.[6]
- Apart from the titles Albert Einstein Meets Doctor Who and Doctor Who Meets Albert Einstein, there exist other renderings of this play's title: Dr. Who meets Einstein,[7] Dr Who meets Albert Einstein,[8][9] Dr. Who meets Albert Einstein,[10] and Albert Einstein Meets Dr Who.[11]
- According to a contemporary article in interactions — the official Institute of Physics newspaper — the play was thirty minutes in length and was aimed at children aged eleven to fourteen.[11]
- The article revealed various elements of the plot, but there is no indication that the plot progressed in the same order when performed. The Doctor arrived in his TARDIS in Albert Einstein's study before he warmed to the Doctor, as he came to ask how the TARDIS worked; Einstein was impressed with the Doctor's understanding that time was a dimension unto itself; the audience was taught how a constant speed of light affected their experience of time and space, with "help" from H. G. Wells, a potted plant, a torch, a railway carriage, and volunteers from the audience (how literal the article was about these elements is unclear); the duo also discussed twin and grandfather paradoxes, with the Doctor making an example of how if he travelled to Arcturus and back at near the speed of light the effects of time dilation would become clear, as well as involving more volunteers from the audience and various disguises; the Doctor had a slapstick scene where he illustrated the danger of travelling back in time and pushing one's grandfather under a train; and, once satisfied with Einstein's help in understanding how the TARDIS worked, the Doctor departed in his TARDIS. Theatrically, the TARDIS's walls would descend to reveal that the Doctor was no longer inside.[11]
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Footnotes[]
- ↑ Budding Einsteins put to the test on irishexaminer.com
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Vermilion Productions on vermillionproductions.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Performance on declanb.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition: Exhibition Guide on issuu.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Who-ology: The Official Miscellany - Stage Plays and Performances; Page 343
- ↑ Honorary Secretary's Report 2004-2005 on iopi-archive.nuim.ie
- ↑ Donal Courtney's CV
- ↑ The Life of Galileo on dublinlyric.ie
- ↑ Unoriginal Sin on balallyplayers.com
- ↑ At the Black Pig's Dyke on balallyplayers.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 interactions (Feb 2005) on ayalaochert.com
