Insufficiency
From: Thursday, 20th September 2012
To: Saturday, 20 October 2012
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Synopsis
The latest play from the pioneering scientist who changed the world by developing the contraceptive pill - but who now writes theatre plays. Set in an American university chemistry department, the play is a comedy of academic manners ... and death. A chemist whose specialism is bubbleology (yes, it is a real scientific subject!) offers two colleagues who are blocking the progress of his career some special experimental champagne - which kills them. But was it an accident ... or revenge?
Our Review:
25 September 2012
A scientific proof that goes disastrously wrong is at the heart of this 'science-in-theatre' play by Carl Djerassi. It could be the basis of an episode of Midsomer Murders perhaps, or a teasing 'did-he-really-do-it' thriller. In fact it's something very different - a hybrid of a serious courtroom drama and an overplayed workplace sitcom.
Taking the courtroom drama aspect first, we have a skewed version of how a prosecution might be conducted. The audience as jury is fair enough, but without a judge there is no sense of control, and the exchanges between the witnesses and Karen Archer's imperious prosecutor become two-way conversations, each interrupting the other. We then get the final summing up for the jury interspersed between these exchanges and the sense of mounting drama is dissipated.
Now the sitcom aspect. From the jaunty opening music onwards there are various indicators of comic perspective, including unpronounceable names, mad scientist hairstyles and ...
Creative
Carl Djerassi (Author)
Andy Jordan Productions ()
Andy Jordan (Director)
Laurie Dennett (Design)
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