Harvard-educated, molecular biologist, visual artist and provocative underground philosopher, Steven Friedman has the answers to life’s big questions. Presented by Al Corley (Dynasty), this one-of-a kind theatrical event – neither play nor lecture – is staged to reflect Friedman’s prismatic and eclectic vision of the world using personal narrative, poetry, art and science to tell the story of a contemporary philosopher's quest to fulfill Einstein's ambition "to solve the riddle of the great, big world."
In a spell-binding and often divisive performance, Friedman offers a solution to the world’s pain – a philosophy based on Kierkegaard’s story in which an ancient torture device, Phalaris’s bull, turned the terrible sounds of pain into music. To create is to enter Phalaris’s bull, and our pain becomes beauty.
Phalaris’s Bull: Solving The Riddle of the Great Big World played its final Off-Broadway performance on January 16, 2016 at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row in New York City.
A genius philosopher—student of molecular biology—bares all in a one-man autobiographical show.
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He’s not your typical playwright; he’s a bona fide genius. The 80-minute evening is as close as you’re likely to come to receiving an exclusive tour . . . of a great mind.
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The “underground philosopher” Steven Friedman performs this monologue-cum-lecture, in which he proposes a way to convert pain into beauty, drawing on a story by Kierkegaard. In previews. Opens Dec. 17.
- The New Yorker
Poet, artist, performer and molecular biologist Steven Friedman shares an original philosophical discourse about the nature of the universe, inspired by Kierkegaard’s reference to an ancient torture device that turned its victims’ agonized screams into music. David Schweizer directs.
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What does it all mean?
With philosophers under attack from Marco Rubio, it’s about time we had a one-man theatrical event that offers a “solution to the world's pain,” based on the wisdom of Kierkegaard and his ilk. Self-proclaimed underground philosopher Steven Friedman serves up the deep thoughts.
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