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Did you ever pick up a telephone and wonder how you would live without one? Look up at an airplane whizzing across the sky and marvel at how all that weight could move through the air? Sit in an automobile and think of how long the same trip would have taken in a horse-drawn carriage? National Theater highlights the pioneers of these and other scientific discoveries that have changed our lives in this production. Journey through history to 'meet' the following: Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Guglielmo Marconi,Thomas Edison, Grace Hopper, Leonardo da Vinci, Eli Whitney, and George Washington Carver. Using the format of having 'historical' actors perform 'scientific demonstrations' in a way that makes them visible to the entire audience offers a unique way for students to see the development of inventions that took the world into the modern era.
Here's what some of our students had to say about the performance...
"It was about a girl named Libby putting off the doing of a school report on inventors until the last minute. When she fell asleep working, she began to dream."
"BOOM! Leonardo da Vinci pops out of the book and Libby's off on an inventors journey."
"Libby and Leonardo traveled through time meeting different inventors and finding out what inspired them to invent."
"During her dream the Phantom of Procrastination chased her. It sent shivers down my spine."
"...the Phantom of Procrastination would scare her to the next inventor. When they were all done with the inventors, Libby got mad at the Phantom and scared him away."
"I liked that all of the people had traits from someone they knew...Thomas Edison's actor made himself look like the grandpa on the Rugrats!"
"I thought it was a good play because it taught, but it wasn't boring."
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