How the World Began
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 5, 2012
Closed Jan 29, 2012
Opened Jan 5, 2012
Closed Jan 29, 2012
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Following the stellar success of her play Crooked at WP in 2008, Catherine Trieschmann returns with a new play about Susan, a high school biology teacher who leaves Manhattan for a job in Plainview, Kansas. Susan is ready for more than a little culture shock, but she's not prepared for the firestorm that engulfs the town when she makes an off-handed comment about the origins of the universe.
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As we learn at the outset of Catherine Trieschmann's intriguing new play
How the World Began, now being presented by the Women's Project at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre under Daniela Topol's direction, we realize that if 16-year-old Kansas resident Micah Staab (Justin Kruger) weren't a Christian fundamentalist, he'd make an excellent Jesuit.
Why? Micah takes offense at an offhand remark made by his new, city-bred biology teacher, Susan Pierce (Heidi Schreck) -- she alludes to nonscientific theories of the origins of life as "gobbledygook" -- and proceeds to grill her mercilessly.
First, Ms. Pierce claims not to have said it ("not part of my vocabulary"). Then, having admitted to the slip,[...]