The How And The Why
by Sarah Treem

Name: The How And The Why
Brand: Sarah Treem
SKU: 9780822227311
Rating: 4.1 (104 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

120 mins Present Day All Women Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Synopsis

THE STORY: Evolution and emotion collide in Sarah Treem's thought-provoking and sharp play about science, family, and survival of the fittest.

On the eve of a prestigious conference, an up-and-coming evolutionary biologist wrestles for the truth wi

Themes Biologists Biologists--Drama Congresses and conventions--Drama Congresses and conventions Evolution (Biology)--Drama Evolution (Biology) PS3620.R442 H68 2013 Women scientists Women scientists--Drama

Press Reviews

"Sarah Treem’s play brims with ideas and emotional colors that eddy and refract like rivulets in a lively, plunging stream."
— Washington Post

"A moving portrait of a woman meeting with equanimity an unexpected, often painful series of questions about the choices she made in the past."
— The New York Times

"Two absorbing hours with two finely formed, interesting, smart, and captivating women… a very rare achievement indeed for women in and at the theatre."
— Feminist Spectator