≈ 1 hour · No intermission
Last updated: November 1, 2021
Entangled premiered at the 2019 Ottawa International Fringe Festival. The play featured Paul Rainville (Carl Jung) and David Frisch (Wolfgang Pauli). The original theatrical production was directed by Cathy Clark, and the stage manager was Jane Osborn.
Entangled’s development benefitted from a Theatre 4.669 summer script workshop led by dramaturge and University of Ottawa theatre professor Kevin Orr.
The idea for the play was a result of the playwright’s time as writer-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The edit, sound design and audio mix are by Chris Tolley.
This audio drama was produced in association with Laura Mullin and Chris Tolley of PlayME podcast now on CBC Radio One.
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Author, playwright, science writer and journalist Jacob Berkowitz has been telling the story of science for the past 25 years. Called “the best kind of...science writer” by Quill and Quire his curiosity driven work explores the intersection of science, story and self—always with an eye to the great sweep of history. Founder of Quantum Writing, a boutique science writing agency, he turns complex facts into engaging stories for research-based organizations across the U.S. and Canada. A former Dibner Fellow in the History of Science (Huntington Library, Pasadena) he is Writer-in-Virtual Residence at the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa. He is recipient of the Paris Prix Audace as science writer on the film The Quantum Tamers.
David Frisch grew up in Toronto, attended university in Boston and did graduate work in California and Chicago. His list of favourite roles includes Truscott in Loot, Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross, the Narrator in Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and Lucio in Measure for Measure. He's found great satisfaction as a producer/actor, mounting productions of In The Next Room or the vibrator play, Ethan Claymore (featuring Paul Rainville), Art, The End of Civilization and especially, as Hanrahan in Below the Belt. The original live production of Entangled was also a career highpoint, so this new audio version is a great chance to bring that play back to life.
Born and raised in Ottawa, Paul spent his formative years along the mighty Rideau River in East End Overbrook. His work over four decades in Canadian theatre has taken him from the East Coast to the West and many places in between. He has played a range of characters from Prospero, to Shylock and King Lear, to a Dragon named Dudley, and an opera-singing worm named Signor Uno Verissimo. Here in Ottawa, he has been fortunate enough over the years to work many times at the NAC: he got to join the marvellous 2015/16 English Theatre Ensemble and play Benoit in The December Man, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Dick Cheney in Stuff Happens; he has also appeared in NAC productions of The “Vaudevilles” of Chekhov, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Secret Garden, 7 Stories, Cyrano, Happy Days, The Dreamland, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and with the NAC Orchestra in Beethoven Lives Upstairs.
Across town at the Great Canadian Theatre Company he has played in The Children’s Republic, The Drawer Boy, Heroes, Plan B, No Great Mischief, Better Living, The Collected Works of Billy The Kid, Our Country’s Good and Relative Good, to name a few. Paul recently played at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre in the part of Mr. Pendleton in the acclaimed production of Choir Boy. In December 2021, Paul will appear in Daisy over at GCTC as they resume the Covid-interrupted production of Sean Devine’s play about the infamous TV advertisement that helped Lyndon Johnson wrest the 1964 election from Barry Goldwater.
Back in 2019 Paul released a collection of original songs that is available on CD and various online platforms.