I hear the American premiere of Carl Djerassi's play "Phallacy" is going on now in New York. Any good? Anyone?
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Phallacy is Djerassi's fifth play. It premiered in England in 2005, but is now in NYC. It comes after "An Immaculate Conception," "Calculus," "Oxygen," and "Ego," and before the most recent, "Taboos," performed last winter in England.
The blurb I keep finding says this about it, by way of summary:
She's a top art historian in a world famous museum. He's a distinguished professor of chemistry. She searches for artistic truth through connoisseurship; he finds scientific fact through cold material analysis. Between them stands the object of her affection: a revered classical statue long thought to be a roman original...and he just proved it to be a 16th century cast. As personal rivalries and professional reputations clash, how far will each go to prove the other wrong?
They were talking about in on Talk of the Nation: Science Friday last week. There's this nice webpage, chock full of links to reviews. Even has the full text of the play, if you have a few extra hours while you're otherwise surfing Scienceblogs (get back to work). And it now falls into the category of representations of science -- science on stage, public understanding of science, and/or alternative forms of crafting and presenting scientific messages -- we've posted on before, here (on other science plays), here (on a London museum), here (on visualizing climate), here (on women and math), and here (on climate theater).
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I'm gonna confess too, this post really bores me. I can't believe you read all the way to the end. This one's a lot more interesting, you should've read it first. Or this one. I mean really, wouldn't you rather log off and read something meaningful? I don't even know anything about Djerassi's plays.
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