Solo Show
The Auden Test
"A play about a poem about a painting about a myth - and what it means to be human. A queer tale, interweaving the lives and works of the poet W.H. Auden and the mathematician Alan Turing." - fromt the publisher.
HER TWO/ “HER2”
In this poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit, a group of women aged nineteen to fifty with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical drug trial. For some of them the trial is renewed hope; others feel it’s a weary last resort. For the research scientist in charge of the program, the trial is the most critical moment in her career. Her mission is global, and measured outcomes are her chief concern. But in the chemo room, medical statistics are just background noise as the women gradually form a collective bond through humour and compassion, raising the question, does community positively influence immunity?
About Playwright(s)
Self-identity
Country of publication
Cast Information
Actor-Friendly Parts
Monologue level
-
Monologue details
-
Scene level
-
Scene details
-
Production and Publication
First produced
2015, Nightwood Theatre, Toronto
Publication year
2015
Published by
Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN
9781770914544
Also available as an e-book
Also available as an e-book
More like this
See All Collection
Bearded Circus Ladies
Seven women, seven in-betweens all arrive at the same bridge on the same night to end it all. When they fall, the force of gravity compacts them into one statistic; the fall woman. This woman does not drown. Instead, she lands on a houseboat chartered by the Real Women, an anti-feminist organization.