25-03-2022
The NOVA School of Science and Technology Library, in partnership with American Corner Portugal, brought to Portugal the presentation of the play “Should've” (“Transgressões”), written by Roald Hoffmann, a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981.
The researcher has always promoted fields of interaction between science and art, with the publication of plays and poetry. This text by Roald Hoffmann, written in 2006, was presented in staged reading form in 2007, twelve years before the current COVID-19 pandemic. In it you can find all the nuances inherent to Science and research, as well as several of the “ghosts” and concerns of the development of (and in) the unknown. The characters move in a web of family relationships, but the problem of what is discovered (and how it is applied) is always present: details of the scientist's quotidian life; awareness of potential misuse of information, data and results; the struggle for funding scientific projects and, above all, the ethics and responsibility of the scientist (and society). An almost premonitory text of a reality that spreads over time, always difficult to understand and unattainable to resolve.
The play will be on stage between March 25th and April 30th at Teatro Extremo.
Free tickets are still available (1st, 8th and 22nd of April, 21h30) by submitting your request using this form.
