Two Body Problem (2018-2020)
A researcher leaves behind the office politics of academia to travel to the frozen south. She is summoned by researchers probing the furthest limits of what makes us human. On Deception Island, Antarctica, the nights are darkless and new technology is being used to grapple with old challenges. It is 200 years after Frankenstein, the ice is thawing, and science is still dancing with the problem of death. Two Body Problem is a lecture that dissipates into a fever dream, an immersive performance that sounds a warning.
Written & directed by Louis Rogers
Performed by Martha Skye Murphy
Produced by Frank Martin
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The play was commissioned by the Bodleian Library and the History of Science Museum, Oxford. It went on to tour UK venues including Camden People's Theatre and the Old Operating Theatre from 2018 to 2020. It was featured and discussed at the University of Oxford's Southern Lives conferences at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing in 2020 and 2021.
Special thanks to Elleke Boehmer, Pamela Clemit, Robert Macfarlane, Philip Sidney, and the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.
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