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Science on Stage: Earthly Bodies

Sunday, March 24, 2019 02:30to04:30
Redpath Museum In Auditorium, 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
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Fee/Entrée : $7 (+ taxes). Payable at the entrance.

In English

Staged reading of two short plays by COLLEEN CURRAN featuring Earthly Bodies, as in deceased.

  •  TUT TUT  

“It would be difficult to describe our emotions”. This play explores the events that may have happened on November 24, 1922 when Lady Evelyn Carnarvon of Highclere Castle (a.k.a. Downton Abbey) revealed a few truths to Howard Carter the day before he opened the Tomb of Tutankhamen.

  • THE SUNSET GALS. How complicated can it get for four women in a small town when bodies start turning up.

The Cast: Mary Burns*Sylvia Cymbalista*Jane Hackett* Chad Tyler* Patsy Tyler*

$7 (+ taxes) / person. Payable at the door. 

Reserve in advance: redpath.museum [at] mcgill.ca

Everyone welcome / Bienvenue à tous. Not suitable for children.

IMAGE: Entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb - The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb

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