Phallacy

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Science is pitted against art in Carl Djerassi's Phallacy, but it's the audience that comes out the loser. Statically directed by Elena Araoz, this new work at the Cherry Lane Theatre is filled with bad dialogue and unrealistic plot twists.

The play's primary conflict is between Dr. Regina Leitner-Opfermann (Lisa Harrow), a respected art historian at a museum in Vienna, and Dr. Rex Stolzfuss (Simon Jones), a noted chemist. Using state of the art techniques, Rex has determined that a bronze sculpture in the museum's antiquities collection is not a Roman original as Regina had put forth in a book on the subject, but was instead cast in the 16th Century. Worried about both her own reputation[...]