"Coil" is an imagining of the true-life 1896 dinner party that brought Sarah Bernhardt, Nikola Tesla, and Swami Vivekananda together at table. For one night we will point our space-age receivers toward 19th-century transmitters, activate our 100 percent homemade Tesla coil, and cast our minds through the Prana, the Akasha, and the Luminiferous Ether, back to the point where we first understood the question. A staged reading featuring Juliana Francis as Sarah Bernhardt, T. Ryder Smith as Nikola Tesla, and Alexis Bhagat as Swami Vivekananda; and with a 100 percent homemade Tesla coil by Bob Schuster.