Fossils
Opening Night: April 25, 2017
Closing: May 14, 2017
Theater: 59E59 Theaters
Vanessa’s life is science. Fact based, evidence led, no nonsense, no monsters. But when a photograph surfaces showing something in Loch Ness, she must embark on a very personal research project. The multi award-winning company Bucket Club create a “magical, melancholy world” (The List) featuring an extinct fish, a missing father, and breath-taking live electronic sound.
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May 2, 2017
If you have to be dragged back into familial distress, why not let a mythical plesiosaur do the tugging. In “Fossils,” an inventive entry in the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, a sighting of the Loch Ness monster forces a young scientist to confront her unhappy past. Narratively slight and at least a little nutty, this piece, created by the company Bucket Club, is deft in form and nifty in presentation.
Vanessa (Helen Vinten) is a hard-working, hard-thinking evolutionary biologist who probably sleeps under her desk. Her idea of a hot and heavy Saturday night? Arguing with creationists in chat rooms. Most of her research is deeply unsexy and involves experiments with the skin cells of a coelacanth, “a living fossil” of a fish, once thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago.
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