Critical Stage Company present bold, sometimes harsh statements which impress upon its audience the need for awareness., whilst adapting old or supporting new plays. Embodying science with a mission and a social conscience, the group produces several plays each year in this country and overseas. During 1998 their performance of ‘Relativity’ at the Wissenshaftskolleg in Berlin was commended by Peter Stolzenberg, Advisor to the German Govt -as ‘Surprisingly stunning theatre’

In the current production, a British Association/Royal Society Millennium Award has been used to present science to local schools in the form of “Dr Concept Detective”, the story of a female engineer in search of the scientific truth about her girlfriend’s son’s death in an untimely motorcycle accident.

The Committee on the Public Understanding of Science also funded “Mrs Mac and the Art of  Rhythm” presented at Imperial College during National Science Week in March 1998. This is the story of Aussie Scientist and Engineer Florence Mckenzie. ‘Mrs Mac’ OBE, plainly a woman of substance, started the WRANS, convinced the Australian Government that women could take an active part in the war effort, was first the female radio ham , and, while engaged in research on Morse code, discovered that women have a better sense of rhythm (Kylie Minogue excepted).

In the tradition of Mrs Mac, the music for Dr Concept was produced in Sydney, Australia and Soho via the internet by Solange Kershaw, an Acoustics Engineer and Theatre Composer and Nick Roberts Musician and Sound Engineer.

Critical Stage Company perform regularly from a London base and you can find them at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe with their adaptation of  ‘ Alice’ – which relates the story of a teenage girl finding new awareness in life. This production will remain true to form for CSC which has developed an expression for space and original music by incorporating live performance of the soulful folk group ‘Mouse’.