"Truth Values" Explores Higher Mathematics
At Central Square Theatre

Are women inherently inferior to men in math and science, as Lawrence Summers, then President of Harvard University, suggested several years ago?

Writer/performer and recovering mathematician, Gioia De Cari offers a woman's perspective in "Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze," an autobiographical, 30-character, one-woman show coming to Cambridge’s Central Square Theater.

Presented by Underground Railway Theater and directed by Miriam Eusebio, "Truth Values" is scheduled to play September 10 - 20.  Selected performances will be followed by conversations with artists and scientists from MIT and Harvard.  (Prior to its engagement in Cambridge, "Truth Values" will be featured at the New York International Fringe Festival in August.)
              
In "Truth Values," De Cari shares her experiences in the exotic boys club of higher mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While making the most of the comic absurdity of being pawed by nerds, being asked to serve cookies at a seminar and retaliating with fashion experiments, "Truth Values" is also a serious exploration of the world of elite mathematics and the role of women in science.

Gioia’s first solo play, "The 9th Envelope" (which she performed) received a rave in the Off-Off-Broadway Review. "Truth Values" recently garnered a Puffin Foundation grant. 

Development of the show originated with the legendary coach Wynn Handman (who discovered and nurtured John Leguizamo and many other stellar monologists) and solo show expert Matt Hoverman (a Drama Desk nominee and collaborator on the award-winning solo show, “Bridezilla Strikes Back”). Director Miriam Eusebio, a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, has won two OOBR awards for excellence.
 
Central Square Theater is located at 450 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. The seeds of the Central Square Theater (CST) were sown in 1997, with a partnership between The Nora Theatre Company, Underground Railway Theater, and the Community Development Department of the City of Cambridge, which brokered a relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT constructed the building and provided an extraordinary 20-year lease commitment at under $5 per square foot -- a contribution valued at more than $2 million over time.

For information and tickets, stop by the box office, call 866-811-4111 or visit www.centralsquaretheater.org.

-- Production photo: John Olson

-- OnStage Boston