WEDNESDAY MORNING 3AM
2019
Written and developed by:
Tom Richards
Assistant direction
Rebekah Carton
12-20 September 2019
Melbourne Fringe Festival, The archive room
In 1964 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson accidentally found evidence of the Big Bang whilst cleaning pigeon crap from their telescope.
Wednesday Morning 3am is storytelling shitstorm about the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, a faint hum that the two scientists couldn’t seem to get rid of.
Dr. Thomas D. Richards is blasting through time and space as we see the beginning and end of everything. Imagine Carl Sagan’s ship of the imagination held together with second hand duct tape and sponsored by ACME.
A one man, one hour, one universe blast through the beginning of everything and nothing. Based on an accidental discovery that changed our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
“If science class had been anything like this in High School, maybe the universe would be less confusing to us all.
It’s childlike wonder in no way detracts from its very adult feeling of being overwhelmed by your own existence. A celebration of the contradictions of life and the universe.
This piece is an absolute joy.”
Theatre Travels
“a one-man, one-hour tour de force of the world, the universe and everything that nevertheless stays light and musical”
Caroline Dehn for Melbourne Fringe
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY
Tom Richards
DRAMATURG
Remy Graham Throssell
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Rebekah Carton
SOUND
Cosmo Renfree