Ensemble Studio Theatre announces EST/Sloan Science & Technology Project 2021 First Light Festival

Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced details for the 2021 First Light Festival, which develops plays exploring science and technology.

The virtual festival will take place from 25 February-29 March, with all presentations free to attend but tickets must be reserved.

The EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project has developed hundreds of new plays since its conception in 1998, that question and broaden the view of science in the popular imagination.

The 2021 festival includes public presentations of Amanda Quaid’s Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays on 25 February, AJ Clauss’ Henry Makes a Bible on 1 March, Mary Elizabeth Hamilton’s Smart on 4 March, Bonnie Antosh’s Lemuria on 10 March, Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir on 22 March and Phaedra Michelle Scott’s Good Hair on 29 March.

There are also invitation-only presentations of Pō e Ao [darkness & light] by Susan Soon He Stanton, Beyond Words by Laura Maria Censabella and Las Borinqueñas by Nelson Diaz-Marcano.

Free tickets can be reserved here but donations are encouraged to support non-profit organisation, Black Girls Do STEM.