Blinded by the Sun
by Stephen Poliakoff
Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up.
Links: Amazon (UK)
Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn
Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics.
Links: Amazon (UK)
Les Palmes de M. Schutz
by Jean-Noël Fenwick
Drama/Comedy: Marie and Pierre Curie discover something hot.
Links: IMBD
An Immaculate Misconception
by Carl Djerassi
Drama: A broody scientist finally gets her gloved hands on some sperm.
Links: our author profile • Amazon (UK)
Oxygen
by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffman
Drama: Scientists both past and present bicker about who discovered the humble gas.
Links: our author profile • Amazon (UK)
Calculus
by Carl Djerassi
Drama: More bickering (this time about mathematics and the dark side of Isaac Newton).
Links: our author profile • Amazon (UK)
Phallacy
by Carl Djerassi
Drama/Comedy: Art vs. science as a bronze statue catalyzes love and a museum spat.
Links: our review • our author profile • Playwright’s website
Autodestruct: the ultimate cure for cancer
by Lizzie Burns
Drama: A man lives on through an immortal cell culture of himself.
Links: our playwright interview • Playwright’s website
Safe Delivery
by Tom McGrath and Julie Webb
Drama: A story about gene therapy, lab politics and life.
Links: Edinburgh review
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Comedy: Two cultures collide in this classic tale of order, chaos and landscape gardening.
Links: our review • Amazon (UK)
Galileo (Life of Galileo)
by Bertolt Brecht
Historical fiction: The Church battles it out against rationality in this insight-packed masterpiece.
Links: our review • Amazon (UK)
A Disappearing Number
by Simon Burney and Complicite
Historical fiction: A time-bending fantasy account based on the real life of the genius mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Links: Complicite
Proof
by David Auburn
Drama: Catherine struggles to come to terms with the legacy of her mathematician father.
Links: Amazon (UK)
Photograph 51
by Anna Ziegler
Drama: Rosalind Franklin battles with lab politics as much as with the discovery of the structure of DNA
Links: our interview • Amazon (UK)
Experiment With An Air Pump
by Shelagh Stephenson
Historical fiction: Scientists in the past and present grapple with scientific mysteries.
Links: Wikipedia
Lenin’s Embalmers
by Vern Thiessen
Dark Comedy: Two rival chemists must decide how to preserve the deceased leader’s body.
Links: Amazon
Chain Reaction
by Jonathan Alexandratos
Drama: The key scientists at Los Alamos must build the A-bomb and deal with its consequences.
Links: Backstage
Should’ve
by Roald Hoffman
Drama: A chemist takes his own life, blaming himself for putting an easy way to make a neurotoxin into the hands of terrorists.
Links: Play website
Newton’s Darkness: Two Dramatic Views
by David Pinner
Historical fiction: Two plays about two of Newton’s infamous conflicts: one with Hooke, and one with Leibniz.Links: Amazon (UK)
The Hard Problem
by Tom Stoppard
Drama:A researcher tries to understand the nature of consciousness.
Links: Amazon (UK)
Oppenheimer
by Tom Morton-Smith
Historical fiction: A study of the moral issues inherent in being a scientist and a human being
Links: Royal Shakespeare Company
Infinities
by John D. Barrow FRS
Experimental: Five scenarios eplore infinity, mathematics and the concept of life – without a plot or characters
Links: SIAM
Placebo
by Melissa James Gibson
Drama: A clinical trial forms the backdrop for crucial life decisions
Links: Amazon (UK)
Informed Consent
by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Drama: Is DNA is our destiny, and who gets to decide?
Links: Amazon (UK)
Miss Atomic Bomb
by Adam Long, Gabriel Vick and Alex Jackson-Long
Musical: In 1952, a Las Vegas hotel tries to lure in tourists coming to gawk at desert nuclear tests by holding a beauty pageant.
Links: The Guardian
Calculating Kindness
by Lydia Adetunji and Laura Farnworth, Directed by Laura Farnworth
Musical: A play based on the life of geneticist George Price, the man who tried to use math to explain altruism.
Links: at Camden People’s Theatre
Links: The Observer
God’s Dice
by David Baddiel
Drama: What would happen if someone was able to prove, scientifically, the existence of God?
Links: Soho Theatre
The Starry Messenger
by Ira Hauptman
Historical fiction: Galileo’s decision to renounce his discoveries takes a big toll on his family.
Links: Dramatic Publishing