Theater of Science November 11, 2006

'Theatre of Science' displays live science on stage -- funny, bizarre and sometimes disquieting. A heady mixture of probability theory, psychology and comedy, this show revives a tradition in which audiences attended the theatre to see scientific demonstrations as entertainment. The climax involves generating six foot long bolts of lightning between two specifically constructed coils, with one of the performers entering a coffin-shaped cage and absorbing the full force of the lethal strikes. An experimental psychologist and former professional magician, Professor Richard Wiseman teams up with a physicist and popular science author, Dr. Simon Singh (author of 'Fermat's Enigma' and 'Big Bang').