Insufficiency

a play by Carl Djerassi

Thursdays and Fridays through November 7,

Thursday 7:30PM, Friday 8:00PM

Z Space, 450 Florida Street, San Francisco

see website for ticket details

http://zspace.org/new-work/insufficiency-by-carl-djerassi

https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/935518

http://www.djerassi.com

“Jerzy Krzyz is a Polish chemist with an unusual specialism: Bubbleology. (Yes it’s a serious scientific subject!) Newly arrived at an American university’s Chemistry department, he is determined to secure a permanent senior post, but the other academics dismiss him and his subject. Their rivalry gets out of hand when he gives two colleagues who are blocking his appointment some experimental champagne – which mysteriously kills them. Was it an accident… or revenge?

This delightful new play is a comedy of academic manners, mystery, and suspense that exposes the passions, petty jealousies, and foolish behavior that scientists and academics so often love to indulge in.

 
Insufficiency was written by Carl Djerassi, a man whose achievements in both science and literature over the course of his 90-year life are prolific. In recent years he’s turned to fiction and the theatre, with a series of novels and six science-in-theatre plays, An Immaculate Misconception, Oxygen (co-written with Roald Hoffmann), Calculus, Phallacy, Taboos, and Insufficiency.”