contact improv meets poetry night: The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci (Old Globe)

SEEN: Feb 14, 2023. Our shortest episode yet! In which we mostly define contact improv and discuss the weather. January 21 – February 26, 2023 Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage Old Globe Theatre Conrad Prebys Theatre Center Written and directed by Mary Zimmerman You know you’re pretty special when painting the Mona Lisa is the least of your accomplishments! Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest thinkers of all time. Now Tony Award winner and MacArthur Genius Grantee Mary Zimmerman (The White Snake, Metamorphoses) shapes a genre-busting play entirely from da Vinci’s own notebooks. A cast of chameleon-like actors takes us on a journey through da Vinci’s mind as he considers everything from math and engineering to philosophy and love. Created by one of the most acclaimed artists working in the American theatre, this unique and breathtaking show that The New York Times called “a fun house of the mind” illuminates what it truly means to be a Renaissance man.