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W=S

“Historically Speaking Reading Series”

Friday ,May 8 @7PM & Saturday May 9@2PM

Polaris North Studio 245 West 29th Street 4th Floor

William Shockley

“W=S”

( The Transistor Shock)

by Ivan K. Schuller and Adam Smith

Directed by Kim T.Sharp

with

Judi Beecher*, Teri Black*, Dan DeCarlo*, Michael Edmund, Jade Elle,

Keith Herron*, Brad Makarowski* and Brian Richardson*

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association

William Shockley, 1956 Nobelist, co-inventor of the transistor and indisputable “Father of the Information Age” is the center of this work which explores the co-existence of his scientific genius with his very controversial theories about intelligence and race.