Playwright Dava Sobel imagines the dramatic encounter between German mathematician Georg Joachim Rheticus who travels to meet Nicholas Copernicus, whose revolutionary work placed the Sun (not the Earth) as the center of the solar system, changing the course of our knowledge and understanding of the universe..
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in February, 2015.
And the Sun Stood Still is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Robert Foxworth as Copernicus
Gregory Harrison as Giese
Michael Kirby as Rheticus
Kate Steele as Anna
John Vickery as Bishop Dantiscus
Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson, Myke Weiskopf
Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Editor: Wesley Dewberry
