Theatre Students Bring Science Lecture To Life
S cience and the arts have been brought together in a striking collaboration between a science lecturer and a group of performing arts students.
Northbrook College students brought a science lecture alive with interjections of theatre and sound at Shoreham’s Ropetackle Arts Centre. Professor Jackie Cassell’s lecture about medical records was given an illustrative dimension by the students, who are studying for their BA degrees in Theatre Arts.
Professor Jackie Cassell is known for her research into the fascinating and hugely important question of how medical information and its management affects healthcare. In her revealing account of who knows what about us, Professor Cassell ventured into the sometime controversial area where privacy and the common good can be in conflict.
Having previously produced works on The God Particle (about Europe’s Large Hadron Collider) and Incredible String (the almost impenetrable “String Theory”), Northbrook is no stranger to the notion of combining an array of media to dramatise science.
The event was part of the ‘Art of Life Science’ series at Shoreham’s Ropetackle Arts Centre. The series of talks by distinguished life scientists is supported by partners from the arts world, to interpret the science with some surprising and entertaining results - showing us how science can entertain and the arts can inform.