"Distracted" By Lisa Loomer at Central Square Theater
May 9 - June 2, 2013 with Pre & Post Performance Events
Posted Monday May 06 2013 at 9:43 pm.
Used tags: event, theater
Distracted by Lisa Loomer and directed by Wesley Savick will be presented May 9 - June 2, 2013 by Underground Railway Theater, at Central Square Theater.
Distracted poses questions about culture of medicating children, our relationship with technology, and how it impacts our family relationships.
Scientists, humanists, parents and teachers will engage audiences about how we define health in our media saturated society in a number of pre and post performance conversations as follows:
Thursday, May 9th after 7:30pm evening performance
Post-show conversation with Dr. Margaret Sheridan from the Children's Hospital, Boston
Friday, May 10th after 8pm evening performance
Post-show conversation with Peter Conrad, Professor of Sociology of ADHD at Brandeis University
Saturday, May 11th after 3pm matinee performance
Conversation in Context - This is your theater. Engage with the greater Central Square community on issues raised in the production. Actors from URT's Youth Underground will talk about their original production about social media, Six Years Online
Saturday, May 11th , 7pm before 8pm evening performance
Pre-show Symposium with Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together
Saturday, May 11th, after 8pm evening performance
Opening Soiree. Congratulate the cast at a complimentary reception.
Sunday, May 12th, after 3pm matinee performance
Post-show conversation with Diane E. Levin, Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston and author of Remote-Controlled Childhood: Teaching Young Children in the Media Age
Thursday, May 16th after 7:30pm evening performance
Scholar Social - Renowned academics illuminate ideas raised in each production in conversation with the audience.
Professor Carlo Rotella, director of American Studies at Boston College and Doreen Arcus, Associate Professor of Research Methods and Human Development at University of Massachusetts
Friday, May 17th after 8pm evening performance
Post-show conversation with Jill Dolan, Professor in English and Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton
Saturday, May 18th, 2pm before 3pm evening performance
Pre-show Symposium with Jackie Stachel, Director of Media and Outreach for "Thinking Outside The Classroom" and Heidi Lack, Psychologist and Art Therapist
Thursday, May 23rd after 7:30pm evening performance
Artist and Audiences – Join the cast and the director in a post-show talkback
Saturday, May 25th 2pm before 3pm evening performance
Pre-show Symposium with Feng Zhang from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Carol Gignoux, founder and president of ADD Insights
Sunday, May 26th after 2pm matinee performance
Post-show conversation with Alice Cohen, Youth Program Planner for Agenda For Children, previously Social Worker with children and families affected by mental health issues
Thursday, May 30th after 7:30pm evening performance
Post-show conversation with Jessica Goldstein, Therapist at McLean Hospital in Harvard
Friday, May 31st after 8pm evening performance
Post-show conversation with Bet MacArthur, Clinical Social worker in Cambridge and Board Member of the Commission for Persons with Disabilities
Saturday, June 1st , 7pm before 8pm evening performance
Pre-show Symposium with Suzanne Corkin, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience Emerita, MIT and Seth Mnookin, Co-Director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing and author of The Panic Virus and Playing in Time
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