3 plays coming up in Marin marinij.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from marinij.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
• Marin Theatre Company stages the West Coast premiere of Dominican American playwright Guadalís Del Carmen‘s “Bees and Honey” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Boyer Theatre at 397 Miller Ave. in Mill Valley. The show continues through March 10. To buy tickets ($12 to $68), visit marintheatre.org. • Sausalito’s Griot Theater Company celebrates pioneering […]
Catastrophist offers lessons from a pre-COVID plague washingtonblade.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonblade.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lily Janiak January 26, 2021Updated: January 27, 2021, 7:21 am
Nathan (William DeMeritt) explains what the evolution of viruses tells us about life in “The Catastrophist.” Photo: Marin Theatre Company
Maybe you learned in high school biology that viruses aren’t alive. They don’t have cells. They can’t live without a host. They don’t perform all the biological processes that elsewhere are the hallmarks of life.
But whether viruses are alive, the character of Nathan tells us in “The Catastrophist,” doesn’t matter. It’s uninteresting, a question of semantics.
Rather, what’s interesting is what the co-evolution of viruses with organisms can tell us about how life begins, both here and in other star systems, Nathan says in the digital world-premiere commission, a co-production of the Marin Theatre Company and Round House Theatre.
Marin Theatre Company to Digitally Premiere The Catastrophist, a New Play About Pandemics
Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about virus hunter Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now it s set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month.
Gunderson, whose one-woman show
Natural Shocks has been available to hear a radio play via Marin Theatre Company after its in-person premiere was canceled due to the pandemic last March, is actually married to Wolfe, and she says it hadn t occurred to her to write a play about him or his work until recently, for obvious reasons.