←Recommendations of The Creature

A Frankenstein of bioethics, Derman's THE CREATURE fantastically and freakishly captures our fears and questions about science now and in the future in a new language and structure for the stage. Makes you really think about whether or not our goals for survival and extending life are worth it if all the examination and extraction results in possible torture and suffering. This play makes imaginative leaps in time and place unlike many plays. A challenge for actors and designers. Check it out.

What a thrilling play full of unexpected and meaningful evolution. The build and flow of scenes kept me entranced. Would love to see it!!

Daring, disturbing, delightful. I was anticipating each new scene, wondering what was in store next as we follow the Creature and its human (and animal) friends. Chills just thinking about it.

what a great sci-fi concept: a biomedically-engineered creature to create extra body parts. Some theater, please help develop this play!

I adore how sprawling this piece is, and yet the creature remains at the center of everything. This piece is enlightening, terrifying, an epic, and oh, so necessary. What Derman has to say about ethics and research and genetic engineering and autonomy seem like issues of a future time, out of grasp. However, bodily autonomy is an ever-present, pressing issue in our society- and The Creature tackles it head on.

This play knocked me flat on my ass; a breathtaking piece of speculative theatre that gets at some compellingly big questions around personhood, parenthood, bodily autonomy, sentience, and more. It starts out as one thing before transitioning into something much stranger and equally fascinating. I love any play that takes big swings and leads its audience on a journey, and this play manages that in such a thrilling way.

This play is terrifying and strange—an impossible, theatrical, speculative poem that could never happen and is already happening. The many questions it asks are fascinating at best and uncomfortable at worst—but as an embodied human being capable of reproduction, they were all equally harrowing and relevant to my life today. Even the most alien and unfamiliar aspects of the story came with a disquieting dose of deja vu (future nostalgia?). The biggest compliment I can pay this play is that it made me feel A LOT of things in a very brief (and somehow infinite) period of time.

Endlessly intriguing speculative piece that both looks ahead and looks to our present and the ways we're harming ourselves and our environment and how we might try to escape the consequences with dubious, ethically complicated methods. The fascinating final third of the play, a series of scenes that look far ahead to the future populated by various groups/flocks of creatures, humans, and beings, is a theatrically compelling climax. I'd be excited to see this on its feet.

A futuristic glimpse into bodily existence and the world they will be living in that will have you on your toes. Well done.