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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
adapted and directed by mary zimmerman
main season | roda theatre
september 5–october 19, 2003
Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission
Mary Zimmerman’s unique style of theatre thrilled Berkeley Rep audiences with Metamorphoses and Journey to the West. She returns to open our 03/04 Season with a production that offers a window into one of history’s most original and imaginative minds. Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are a record of his ideas on far-ranging topics from mathematics, anatomy, architecture and engineering, to philosophy, love and the human spirit. Zimmerman, whose own vivid imagination, tongue-in-cheek humor and theatrical vision have earned her a MacArthur “genius” grant and a coveted Tony Award, creates a beautiful, beguiling and brilliant canvas on which the mind of Leonardo is illuminated.
