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Minimal : Icarus at the Edge of Time - Family Concert
Sunday 17th October 2010, 3.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium
This event is part of Minimal
What happens when you fly through a black hole? That’s the question at the heart of Brian Greene’s fantastical sci-fi inspired tale for children.
Greene is a celebrated physicist as well as a best selling children’s author and he’s made it his mission to make science as fun and spectacular as he can. Here he has joined forces with another global star, Philip Glass to create a spectacular sound and vision extravaganza for family audiences. Take your seats for a eye-popping trip into deep space as Glass’s spectacular musical score dances, thunders and swoops around you with a cutting edge film by Al and Al transporting you deep into space.
Discover what happens to Icarus, a young lad on an epic space voyage. He spots a black hole outside the spaceship and goes to explore it – and the worst happens when he is sucked in. But that’s just the start of his adventure; Icarus survives, but when tries to return to the spaceship in what he believes to be a few minutes after leaving it, he gradually realises that many thousands of years have elapsed…
Commissioned and produced by World Science Festival (New York) with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Southbank Centre (London) with the Royal Society. Co-commissioned by Associazione Festival della Scienza with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Glasgow’s Concert Halls.
Your ticket also gains you entry to our Science Exhibition presented in collaboration with the Glasgow Science Centre. Enjoy our hands-on exhibits and ask our experts any questions you might have after the performance. Situated in our Exhibition Hall, it's open from 1pm - 7pm.
Suitable for children of ages seven and over.
Tickets: £10
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A transaction charge of £1.50 applies to all phone bookings.
A transaction charge of £1 applies to all online bookings.
Concessions
£5 (children)
Family ticket £25 (2 adults and 2 children)
Companions and Carers go free when accompanying a patron that requires assistance. Please request your additional ticket when making your booking.
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