The forgotten
genius of
Tesla explored

THE Electric Company explores the life
of Nikola Tesla using music, masks,
physical theatre, video images and a litte
tap dance in its latest production : Bese ae Oe ; ; i>
Brilliant opening March 12 at the a - ce a ; aN ~ eee oe i as ro
Roundhouse Community Centre. _ rt, a, ar PQ ape a ; |

Through a modern day information addict trav-
elling the Internet we are transported ta the 1880s
where Tesla battles Thomas Edison tor the contract
to harness the energy of Niagara Falls.

Virtually forgotten in his lifetime, Tesla single-
handedly pioneered the system of electricity we take
for granted today. He invented alternating current,

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

Family affair

BOUNDARY Community School's salmon hatching program has received a boost courtesy of Dave Allerton (centre)
who has augmented the kids’ learning by painting a salmon surrounded by scenes of its life cycle on a classrcom wall.
He is surrounded by (left to right) Halley Morris, son Kobe Allerton, Katrina Eschner and second son Taigan Allerton,

radio, transformers, fluorescent lighting, and pio-
neered the X-ray, radar and particle beam weaponry.
100 vears tater, Tesla has risen te mythical status on
the World Wide Web as we begin to resemble the
world he envisioned. -

Directed in association with Conrad
Alexandrowiez (winner of the Ray Michael Aw ard
for most promising emerging director of 1996-97)
Brilliant uncovers this forgotten genius who spent
most of his life trying to recapture the world he had
created. That the FBI confiscated his work and
writings after his death, and that the Americans are
currently building a military project in Alaska, based
on his ideas, fuels the intrigue surrounding Tesla.
Nikola Tesla’s inventions ushered in
the 20th century and the electronic
age. He invented the alternating
current system which we use today
and made possible the development
of large electrical generating sta-
tions, allowing for the transmission
of electricity over large distances at
high voltages, bringing electricity to
practically anywhere efficiently.
Without his visions, much of our
modern science would have been
impossible.

Venue: Roundhouse
Community Centre -
Performance Space
When: Previews
March 1! at 8 pm,
Opens March 12,
Closes March 20 (no
show Saturday), Two-
for-one Tuesday
Matinee: Sunday
March 15 at 2:00 pm Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in
(Pay-Whiat-You-Can)} Croatia, the son of a Serbian minis-
Talkback: After ter.
Monday Night show 1882 — Tesla devises his alternat-
Tickets: $14/$10 ing current motor despite the gen-
sthiors & students erally held belief among scieatists
that AC was neither feasible nor
practical.
1884 — Tesla arrives in America
and immediately begins working for Thomas
Edison. Shortly thereafter the nwo have a falling out
over Tesla’s radical ideas.
1888 — Tesla teams up with George Westinghouse
to develop the alternating current system. Edison
attempts to discredit alternating current by staging
public demonstrations where he would electrocute
stray animals with an AC generator. Tesla wins the
contract to harness Niagara Falls.
1896 — Chicago World’s Fair is tit by Tesla system,
1898 — Telsa travels to Colorado Springs and
develops a system for transmitting electricity with-
out wires. Fearing thett of his ideas, and Messed
with photographic memory, he stores many of the
details in his head, never committing them to paper.
1890 — Tesla begins building a tower at
Wardenciytte, Long Island, to be the centre of a
world radio network as well as a point of transmis-
sion for wireless electricity. His investor, }.P.
Morgan, pulls out, feaving the rower unfinished.
1943 — Tesla dies in virtual poverty in his boarding
house in New York. The FBI raid his room within
days, confiscating, all of his documents
1985 — Bernard Eastlund patents “A Method for
Altering a Region of the Earth’s Armosphere”
based on Tesla’s work at Colorady Springs
1994 — The U.S. Navy and Air Force begin the
construction of the High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska using
Easthind’s patents. HAARP will blast the ionos
phere vital for the survival of fife on earth, with
unprecedented amounts of eneruy with the hope of
creating a new system for military communications.
Critics tear there could be cateome environmental
repercussions but the project remains top seeret and
the story woes unreported.
1998 — Projected date of a tully operating,
HAARP,

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