STELLA, a new play about women and astronomy which will open in May 2013 and then begin a UK tour to include Greenwich Theatre and The Rose Kingston

STELLA，一部关于女性和天文学的新剧，将于 2013 年 5 月上演，然后开始英国巡演，包括格林威治剧院和玫瑰金斯顿

• 批准号: ST/L000229/1
• 负责人: Siobhan Mary Rose Nicholas
• 金额: $ 1.47万
• 依托单位: Take the Space
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FL000229%2F1
• 关键词: STELLA; new; play; about; women

This new play about women and astronomy will be on a UK tour from June 2013.STELLA tells the story of two female astronomers: Caroline Herschel from the C18th and Jessica Bell, a fictional radio astronomer from the C21st: Jess, a lecturer at University College, London is invited to write about her favourite female astronomer from the past and so, Jess arrives in Bath to research the life of Caroline Herschel. The action of this piece unfolds as a double narrative: two women from different times simultaneously inhabit the same house in Bath. The intention is for our audience, whilst engaged emotionally in the personal challenges of both astronomers, to perhaps consider {consciously or even subconsciously} the concept of Time and Space. The character of Jess also offers a contemporary insight into the Herschel legacy which undoubtedly enriched the study of later astronomers and cosmologists. The premise of the play is that Caroline's concern for the astronomers of the future was a passionate driving force that fed into the rigor and exactitude of both her observations and her charts.This theme of Past and Future is fundamental to the play: we learn that Jess' daughter, in the midst of the Arab Spring, has become an intern at the new Library of Alexandria - and so the memory of Hypatia {350AD to 415AD}, the very first female astronomer, also ripples through the piece. Ultimately by linking the role of women through the ages with the study of the universe, we hope to show that the search for understanding and truth is the meeting point for all women, men, scientists and artists, and that this meeting point deepens our experience of the world we live in and nourishes the human psyche; that the challenges of the female astronomer are relevant to all women" the audience choked on the bared emotions and the wonderment of people seeing deep space for the first time" The Guardian, John Vidal on STELLA'S performed reading in May 2012. Our tour includes Greenwich Theatre, The Old Market in Brighton, The Mill at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, The Rose Kingston, BT Studio at Oxford Playhouse and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. At present, we are touring to eleven venues, with an expected total of twenty performances and an audience total of 2,320. However if funding is achieved from the STFC, we will be able to expand STELLA'S tour considerably; we hope to play at least two festivals this Summer and already have strong interest from theatres for the Autumn.

这部关于女性与天文学的新剧将于 2013 年 6 月在英国巡演。 《STELLA》讲述了两位女天文学家的故事：来自 18 世纪的卡罗琳·赫歇尔和来自 21 世纪的虚构射电天文学家杰西卡·贝尔：伦敦大学学院的讲师杰西受邀撰写有关她过去最喜欢的女天文学家的故事，因此杰西来到巴斯研究卡罗琳·赫歇尔的生活。这部作品的情节以双重叙事的方式展开：来自不同时代的两个女人同时居住在巴斯的同一所房子里。目的是让我们的观众在情感上参与两位天文学家的个人挑战的同时，或许可以{有意识地或什至无意识地}考虑时间和空间的概念。杰西的性格也提供了对赫歇尔遗产的当代见解，这无疑丰富了后来天文学家和宇宙学家的研究。该剧的前提是卡罗琳对未来天文学家的关心是一种热情的驱动力，这种动力融入了她的观察和图表的严谨性和精确性。过去与未来的主题是该剧的基础：我们得知杰西的女儿在阿拉伯之春期间成为了亚历山大新图书馆的实习生 - 因此对希帕蒂亚（公元 350 年至公元 415 年）的记忆，第一个女性 天文学家，也通过这件作品产生涟漪。最终，通过将历代女性的角色与对宇宙的研究联系起来，我们希望表明，对理解和真理的探索是所有女性、男性、科学家和艺术家的交汇点，而这个交汇点加深了我们对我们所生活的世界的体验，滋养了人类的心灵；女天文学家面临的挑战与所有女性息息相关“观众被人们第一次看到深空的赤裸裸的情感和惊叹所窒息”《卫报》约翰·维达尔在 2012 年 5 月在 STELLA'S 上进行了朗诵。我们的巡演包括格林威治剧院、布莱顿的老市场、吉尔福德伊冯·阿诺剧院的磨坊、玫瑰金斯顿、牛津剧院的 BT 工作室和斯蒂芬·约瑟夫剧院， 斯卡伯勒。目前，我们正在11个场馆进行巡演，预计演出共20场，观众总数为2,320人。然而，如果得到STFC的资助，我们将能够大大扩展STELLA的巡演；我们希望今年夏天至少能在两个节日上演出，并且已经引起了剧院对秋季演出的浓厚兴趣。