We will be doing an Improbable Dramatic Readings session this Friday night, January 17, 2025, at Arisia, the scifi con in Boston, beginning at 8:00 pm.
WHERE: Arisia, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in the Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge Hotel.
WHAT: Improbable Dramatic Readings (read aloud by probably dramatic readers) of very brief extracts from improbably exciting genuine published research studies, some of which have been honored with Ig Nobel Prizes. Dramatic readers (and whatnot) include:
- Sara Dion
- Dean Grodzins
- Dakota Freeman
- Brendan Chatwind
- plus three timekeepers
David Kessler has done much of the prelim organizing from afar, and Roksi Freeman the day-of from a-near..
NOTE: The photo above shows the performers in an Improbable Dramatic Readings session we did last year (2024) at Boskone (itself a scifi convention in Boston, Massachusetts), on February 10, 2024. The performers there included: Sara Dion, James Bacon, Geri Sullivan, Roksi Freeman, Amy Kucharik, Robin Abrahams, Gary Dryfoos, and three timekeepers. The event was emceed by Marc Abrahams, with portaborsing by Michele Liguori, stage managed by David Kessler. David Kessler took this photo.