The Peaceful Crystallographer - and Other Songs

Join Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall for a special 20th Bloomsbury Festival singing celebration of Crystallographer Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971) – the first female professor at UCL and the first female Fellow of the Royal Society. Defying all odds, her pioneering science led to breakthroughs in organic chemistry and medical treatments. Beyond science, Lonsdale was a prison reformer, women’s rights activist and pacifist, warning of the dangers of nuclear physics and wealth inequality in her book Is Peace Possible?

Electric Voice Theatre will be joined by some wonderful young acappella singers from University College London who call themselves UC8 and a group of singers from the exceptional Clerkenwell Community Choir, to perform music which reflects Lonsdale’s eclectic life. Ranging through Irish folk song, music-hall, stirring anthems and ethical hymns. The performance features works by Judith Weir and Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Lonsdale’s contemporaries like Elizabeth Maconchy, Shena Fraser and Clara Novello Davies and Conway Hall’s radical thinkers, Eliza Flower and Emily Josephine Troup.

In addition to the singers we have some special guests for our post-show discussion, including science historian Dr Patricia Fara and Zoë Waller, Professor of Drug Discovery, Pharma & Bio Chemistry at University College London, and we’ll meet some of today’s women in science at UCL in the year of its 200th anniversary. 

MORE INFO: www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk

www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/the-peaceful-crystallographer-and-other-songs/

Press enquiries: Herbie Clarke: email; herbie@electricvoicetheatre.co.uk

Artistic Director Frances M Lynch: and other company members are available for interviews.

Press Release: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpYUOR_f0_qlAyFkSchV0dZX0LsXDLWH/view?usp=share_link