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Arts: Science on stage.


Byline: Joe Rile

EXPERIMENTAL drama with a difference - a play and a musical to mark the British Association of Science Festival - opens in Liverpool tomorrow.

Hanging Hoke hoke  
tr.v. hoked, hok·ing, hokes Slang
To give an impressive but artificial, false, or deceptive quality to: hoked up some phony allegations.
 is the story of scientist Robert Hoke (loved by Christopher Wren, hated by Isaac Newton).

Hoke may have been known as England's Leonardo, but his rivals and detractors effectively removed him from the history books.

That was until, two years ago, am anus cript was discovered in the cupboard of a country house.

The result is a play which poses the question: was he buried by another kind of Da Vinci plot?

Answers at Unity theatre, Wednesday (8pm).

Meanwhile, at Liverpool University's Eleanor Rathbone Theatre (various times, September 8-12), there's Big Bang big bang

Model of the origin of the universe, which holds that it emerged from a state of extremely high temperature and density in an explosive expansion 10 billion–15 billion years ago.
, a musical comedy about romance versus Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above.  prestige.
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Publication:Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Date:Sep 5, 2008
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