Oxygen, Winter 2003
Oxygen
by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann
Presented in Thurber
Theatre
Directed by Bruce
Hermann
Cast | Production Staff | Program Copy
Feb. 26 at 7:30 pm
Feb. 27-28, March 1, 4-8 at 8 pm
March 1 at 2 pm
In Oxygen, the Nobel Foundation decides to award a "retro-Nobel" for the discovery of oxygen . . . but should it go to Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph Priestley or Carl Wilhelm Scheele? The action alternates between 1777 and 2001, the tensions and ambiguities of the 18th century mirrored in the 21st. The play opens in a sauna in Stockholm, where the wives of the three scientists reveal the rivalry among their husbands. Oxygen is an imaginative addition to the long list of publications by the distinguished authors. Djerassi is professor of chemistry at Stanford and perhaps best known as inventor of the birth-control pill. Nobel Prize winner Hoffmann is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University.
College
of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Department
of Chemistry
Cast
| Prof. Sune Kallstenius | Alex Mack |
| Prof. Bengt Hjalmarsson | Terry Schoone-Jongen |
| Ulla Zorn | Lise Evans |
| Prof. Astrid Rosenqvist | Tarashai Lee |
| Prof. Ulf Svanholm. | Nick Willson |
| Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier | Mandy Fox* |
| Mary Priestley | Sara Borgeson |
| Sara Margaretha Pohl (Fru Pohl) | Christina
Ritter |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele | Doug Avery |
| Antoine Laurent Lavoisier | Donald Clark |
| Joseph Priestley | Zach Hartley |
| * Appears by permission
of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors
and Stage Managers in the United States |
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Production Staff
| Chair/Director Of Theatre | Lesley Ferris |
| Producer | Mark Shanda |
| Director | Bruce Hermann |
| Scenic Designer | Brad Steinmetz* |
| Costume Designer | Adam M. West |
| Lighting Designer | Jim Hutchison* |
| Sound Designer | Jim Knapp |
| Technical Director | Mark Shanda |
| Assistant to the Technical Director | Sarah Reese |
| Production Coordinator | Jim Knapp |
| Stage Manager | Jennifer Doelger |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Wendy Hoop |
| Voice/Speech and Dialect Coach | Mandy Fox and Christina Ritter |
| Viewpoint Coach | Jeanine Thompson |
| Period Movement Coach | Nena Couch |
| Masque Choreographer | Lise Evans |
| Assistant Director | Katie Miller |
| Assistant Lighting Designer | Shaun Suchan |
| Assistant Sound Designer | David Atkinson |
| Dramaturg | Elizabeth M. Dekker |
| Box Office Manager | Rachel E. Barnes |
| Poster And Program Design | Laura Sipe |
| Composer | Raphael Crystal |
| *These designs presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree Master of Fine Arts in the Department of Theatre of the Ohio State University. |
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