Phalaris’s Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World

Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Series and Riddle Productions encore a one-of-a-kind theatrical event, direct from New York and sold-out performances in Rome and Asia. Harvard-educated molecular biologist, visual artist and provocative visionary philosopher, Steven Friedman has the answers to life’s big questions. Using personal narrative, poetry, art, and science, he delivers a spell-binding performance reflecting his prismatic, transformative and deeply consoling vision of the world. Neither play nor lecture, Friedman offers a solution to the world’s pain based not on belief or faith but on logical rigor – a philosophy starting from Kierkegaard’s story of an ancient torture device, Phalaris’s bull, that turns the terrible sounds of pain into music. All proceeds support the Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Campaign.