Science theater on stage: Review of the play The Right Way

Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

This text reviews a science play that has emerged from a collaboration between performing artists and scientists based in Lund, Sweden. It argues that the play, titled The Right Way, can productively be understood as ‘science metatheater'. Thus, it belongs to a genre which knowingly and self-ironically brings the viewer's attention to the staged nature of the theater performance. As such, science metatheater moves beyond placing ‘science on stage'. Instead, it seeks to place science theater itself on stage. By doing so, it front-stages the challenges of ‘Sci-Arts’ collaborations between scientists and artists, in which competing concerns – aesthetic, epistemological and communicational – may come into conflict with each other.