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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, narrated this afternoon by actor Billy Boyd.

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 – flying to a hairsbreadth above the point of no return. But that’s just the start of his adventure; 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.

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