Tulip Wars
From: Tuesday, 16th February 2010
To: Sunday, 28 March 2010
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Synopsis
Two rival plant breeders are each involved in their own secret plot to attempt the previously impossible task - to grow a perfect black tulip. This secrecy awakens the suspicions of the local plod whose obsession with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction leads them into a series of ludicrous misunderstandings - exacerbated by a TV wannabe lab assistant and two mysterious figures from the past.
Our Review:
24 March 2010
During the 1630s, Holland was swept by a craze for tulips which inflated the price of their bulbs astronomically and eventually resulted in an economic crash. The Tulip Wars , a new play by Mark R Giesser based on a novel by Alexander Dumas, brings tulip mania into the 21st-century.
Leading the national obsession were Carolus Hoofdorn and Cornelia Vanderpol, a pair of rival biologists locked in a competition to engineer a perfect black tulip. Four hundred years later and Carolus and Cornelia live on, inhabiting the minds of their distant descendents, Audrey Braddock and Adrian Vanderpol, and badgering them to complete the impossible feat of genetic engineering. This rather convoluted set up is made surprisingly clear, both in the writing and in director Ray Shell’s staging. However, as the plot develops it becomes ever more fantastical. Audrey’s daughter is a CIA agent posing as a honey farmer, the local police are searching for WMDs in a greenhouse and a ...
Creative
Mark R Giesser (based on 'How to Build a Better Tulip' by Mar R. Giesser and 'The Black Tulip' by Alexandre Dumas) (Author)
Giant Olive Theatre Company (Company)
Ray Shell (Director)
John Scheffler (Design)
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