Three Billion Letters – Riverside Studios - North West End UK

review: Three Billion Letters at Riverside Studios

Rating: 1 out of 5. Science and Art cancel each other out in this confusing production The human genome shares 17-24% of its make-up with a banana, 99% with a chimpanzee, and only 0.1% varies between humans. But these differences matter. Three Billion Letters is an interdisciplinary project combining science and art to explore the wonders of genetics. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of waiting around for something interesting to happen, and then wh…

Three Billion Letters – Riverside Studios - North West End UK

Mimmi Bauer, Patrycja Dynowska and Michal Szpak’s Three Billion Letters focuses on the impact of DNA, how everyone everywhere is inter-related since the Neanderthals and how we are still evolving.  These are interesting themes which could provide the basis for a fascinating exploration of heritage and cultural identity and a reminder that we leave our DNA traces everywhere.  Unfortunately, this production comes over as part TED-talk on DNA scien…