Elwyn Berlekamp, Aaron Siegel, and David Eisenbud have told me about next month's Playground event [ read their mission statement ], which is going to be on combinatorial game theory (CGT).
On March 7 we're meeting with playwrights (it sounds like it's over twenty of them (!) ) to talk about CGT, and then they'll have 4 days to write 10-minute plays that somehow relate to it. The Playground judges then select their six favorites and they'll be performed on March 20 at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, at 8pm.
The Playground people do this once a month, but only once a year is it a mathematics theme that is chosen. And this year, it's a math theme I happen to be working on now. So it should be interesting.
Last night I went to this month's Playground plays, which were inspired by a current SF MOMA exhibition on the 1906 earthquake (the 100 year anniversary is looming). I was very impressed by the plays and the performances—they were just great!
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