An Experiment With An Air Pump at University of New Orleans

Authors

• Shelagh Stephenson

An award winning play where medical ethics are entwined in a detective story, spanning two hundred years. In 1799, on the eve of a new century, an English house buzzes with scientific experiments and furtive romance. An Experiment with an Air Pump catapults us to 1999, present day in the same house where we encounter a world of scientific chaos, genetic engineering and a dark secret that has been buried for over 200 years. The story is one of exploration into past events where humans, art, and science create questions with answers that are beautifully intertwined.