- Doctor Do - Or, Splitting Hairs,
- 2024
- 1 male - 2 male/female
Playwright: Sofianna Theofanous
- In a laboratory buried beneath the desert into which the Earth has been transformed, Doctor Do and his assistants, Saverios and Ignatios, are trying to find a way to save humanity. The only survivors on Earth are all bald, due to the forced adaptation to the extreme heat created by the changing climate, and they are convinced that if they can find a single hair, they will be able to extract its DNA and create a new human being, resistant to the new reality, so that humanity can continue – and perhaps do better than its predecessors. With a hole in the ceiling that cannot be repaired, the sand, like an hourglass, constantly reminds them that time is not on their side. Having exhausted themselves through billions of experiments on their own heads in an attempt to produce even one precious hair, they achieve nothing except the creation of an entirely new fauna, which they ignore by cramming it into the back of the laboratory. When Doctor Do finally appears after several days, carrying a bowl of soup in which a single hair is floating, they embark on a philosophical journey through history and the ways in which hair has shaped it, as well as how humanity has reached its present state by obsessing over hair, both literally and metaphorically. The play is an original political and philosophical commentary, using the tools of tragicomic dramaturgy and musical theatre to address climate change, its consequences, and the reasons that led to the destruction of humanity, while leaving open the hope that, whatever happens, nature will ultimately reclaim what belongs to it.