Separated at Birth: The Lincoln/Darwin Plays

Separated at Birth consists of the full-length Monkey Men, an award winning play by local playwright Leroy Leonard and Abe and Chuck (Way) Off Broadway, an evening of original short plays. The two productions will run in repertory over the show’s four week run. Some of the plays in Separated at Birth are period pieces, and some are set in contemporary times. But all are world premieres, all are in some way related to Lincoln and/or Darwin, and all are funny, edgy, and thought provoking.
Monkey Men tells the story of the Piltdown Man, one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. When some tantalizing counterfeit bones of the “missing link” emerged in England in 1912, scientists went scurrying in a thousand wrong directions. Forty-one tenuous years later, Piltdown was finally revealed as a masterful forgery. Who perpetrated this spectacular joke on the scientific world? Why? National pride, personal vendettas, wishful thinking, and a keen sense of the absurd merge to create a fast-moving tale of what we can prove, what remains a mystery, and why we care.
The seven plays of Abe and Chuck (Way) Off Broadway include:"Lizzy and the Lincolns," “The Debate,"

"Beard Pressure,"

"The E-Words,"

"What Would Abe Do?"

"Alfred and Eddy," and

"The Incredible Mr. Lincoln."