After Darwin

A full-length play in two acts in readers theatre performances enhanced with live music.

"Timberlake Wertenbaker's brain-teasing new play addresses the ruling metaphor of our times: the survival of the fittest. She does it in the most direct way possible, by dramatizing the development of Darwin's ideas on the origins and survival of species during his voyage on the Beagle in the 1830s and the conflict between him and Fitzroy, his captain and a literalist believer in the Bible. But the metaphor is underlined by casting this as a play within a play, where the actor playing Darwin has no interest beyond personal survival and the actor playing Fitzroy is weakened by principle." - Sunday Times, London

"After Darwin is probably the richest, most absorbing piece that the author of Our Country's Good has yet written…A play fired up by the exhilaration of discovery and the possibilities of art." - The Guardian

THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY:

• Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 2:30 PM
  at the Whitefish Bay Public Library Program Room (5240 N Marlborough Dr)
  FREE! (donations kindly requested to help cover costs)

• Friday, September 29th  & Saturday, September 30th @ 7:30pm
  at Sunstone Studios MKE (127 E Wells St)
  $20 cash or card at the door

LIMITED SEATING (40) AT EACH VENUE! NO ADVANCE SALES.