A playwright, a philosopher and a beekeeper: Constellations debate at the Duke of York's

Published: 24 November 2012
Reporter: David Chadderton

Sally Hawkins as Marianne and Rafe Spall as Roland in Constellations at the Duke of York's Credit: Johan Persson

Following discussions based around the subjects of the plays Posh by Laura Wade and Jumpy by April de Angelis, The Making of Constellations will look at how Nick Payne's play Constellations was created on Friday 30 November.

The play features a quantum physicist and a beekeeper and explores the multiverse theory, that there are infinite parallel universes and for every decision made in this universe, every other option is played out somewhere else.

To debate the issues thrown up by the play will be a panel consisting of the playwright, "Urban Bee Keeper" Steve Benbow and renowened philosopher and Master of the New College of the Humanities Professor A C Grayling.

Benbow, who assisted with the research for the play, founded the London Honey Company when he was living on the sixth storey of a block of flats near Tower Bridge locating his first hive behind the lift shaft, and he now supplies honey and manages hives for clients including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, The Savoy and Fortnum and Mason.

The discussion will be from 8:45PM at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on Friday 30 November. Tickets are free but need to be reserved in advance. For more information, see the Constellations web site.

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