First performance 7 January 2011 | Playwright Sarah Treem | |
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The how and the why at aurora theatre company trailer
The How and the Why is a play by Sarah Treem, a staff writer for HBO 's In Treatment. The play depicts two women biologists meeting for the first time, one near the end of her career and one who is just beginning. The older woman has earned fame for her work on the Grandmother hypothesis and the younger wants to present a radical new hypothesis to explain why human women menstruate, while most mammals do not. The play deals with the workings of science and its impact on the personal lives of women scientists.
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- The how and the why at aurora theatre company trailer
- The how and the why at mccarter theatre
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The play premiered in 2011 in Princeton, New Jersey at McCarter Theatre, and has since been produced in the Penguin Rep in New York, the Trinity Repertory Company in Rhode Island, the InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia, and Timeline Theatre Company in Chicago. It is currently being produced by Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Hennepin Theatre Trust In Minneapolis has slated the play for a run March 10 through March 20, 2016 at New Century Theatre featuring Caroline Kaiser as Zelda Kahn. Theater J In Washington DC has slated the play for a run February 15 through March 12, 2016 and will be directed by Shirley Serotsky.
The play draws on the work of scientist Margie Profet, who theorized that menstruation clears the body of toxins.