Stages remain quiet these days, seats sit unfilled and curtains gather dust as the COVID-19 pandemic has put theater on pause around the world. But this weekend, four new short, science-based plays debut online about everything from pikas and tsunamis to cannibalism. 

Available to view online starting today, Science Shorts are the result of four CU Boulder scientists (including CIRES' Ted Scambos and Neesha Schnepf) partnering with four playwrights from Colorado to write and produce four fictitious, 10-minute plays, followed by four short talks by the scientists who inspired their work. The production is the result of a collaboration between the Boulder Ensemble Theater Company (BETC) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), with support from CU Boulder’s Nature, Environment, Science & Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts. 

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