CARL DJERASSI (1923 - )
| Nationality: | American/Austrian |
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Plays by Carl Djerassi
Calculus |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Andy Jordan Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | Imperial College Press, London; under title "Newton's Darkness" | 2003 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A music version (music by Werner Schulze) first produced in 2005 in Zurich Opera | ||||
Synopsis: A play about the historical scandal behind the priority struggle between Newton and Leibniz as to who invented the calculus | ||||
Ego |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | Andy Jordan Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | Haymon Verlag, in German | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | Serious Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: cf Three On A Couch | ||||
Synopsis: Celebrity, wealth, acclaim, major prizes& it's not enough. A famous writer obsessed with his reputation fakes death to read his own obituaries. A dark comedy about a singular obsession by the man who 'invented' the Contraceptive Pill. | ||||
Immaculate Misconception, An |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | DJANUS | |||
| 1st Published: | Imperial College Press, London | 2000 | ||
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| Genre: | Serious Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1 teenager | |||
Notes: Already translated into 11 languages. (Tricycle Theatre, London, 1998: staged rehearsed reading directed by Erica Whyman (with Michelle Fairley, Raad Rawi, Michael Cochrane and Alexandra Lilley). | ||||
Synopsis: A serious comedy about the use and misuse of a new in vitro fertilization method (ICSI) | ||||
Oxygen |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | Andy Jordan Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, and New York | 2001 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Already translated into 10 languages, written with Roald Hoffmann | ||||
Synopsis: On the occasion of the centenary (2001) of the Nobel Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences establishes a "Retro-Nobel Prize" to recognize contributions made prior to 1901. Which dead scientist should receive the first Retro-Nobel Prize for the discovery of Oxygen? A sharp satirical play about competition among scientists that is historically grounded | ||||
Phallacy |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | Andy Jordan Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: with immediate transfer to King's Head, London. Already translated into German | ||||
Synopsis: A revered classical statue, for centuries thought to be a Roman original, is suddenly proved to be merely a 16th century cast.But is sit worth less? And has it become less beautiful? Personal rivalries and professional reputations clash as Art and Science join battle in this topical new play. | ||||
Taboos (When Harriet Met Sally) |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Andy Jordan productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: explores the implications of modern fertiliy techniques or, as one character describes it, "a spectaculary complicated reproductive mess among adults, not all of them consenting". Ian Johns, The Times | ||||
Three On A Couch |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Andy Jordan Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A slightly modified version of "EGO" (see above) | ||||
Synopsis: Celebrity, wealth, acclaim, major prizes& it's not enough. A famous writer obsessed with his reputation fakes death to read his own obituaries. A dark comedy about a singular obsession by the man who 'invented' the Contraceptive Pill. | ||||