Publisher Description
Professor Richard Myers, now in his 70s and suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease, is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his work in the development of in-vitro fertilization. That calls for a family reunion, and given this high-functioning, dysfunctional family, there’s bound to be trouble ahead. As they gather, old resentments erupt as they fight over Richard’s legacy while facing another family member’s serious illness.
Incudes a conversation with playwright Alexis Zegerman.
This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in December 2023.
Directed by Sarah Drew
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording, starring:
Hugo Armstrong as Professor Richard Myers
Seamus Dever as Thomas Myers
Sarah Drew as the voice of Karen
Patrick Heusinger as Anthony Myers
Kelly McCreary as Dot Myers-Cooper
Monica McSwain as Lily Cooper and Young Dot
Matthew Floyd Miller as Nate Cooper
Desean K. Terry as Phillip Tennyson
Joanne Whalley as Megan Myers.
Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Prepared for audio by Mark Holden.
Recorded, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll, and edited by Neil Wogensen for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
Piano music and musical characters adapted and performed by Rusty Tinder, recorded by Charles Carroll, and Directed by Mark Holden.
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez
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“Hugo Armstrong and Joanne Whalley lead an exceptional cast of L.A. Theatre Works regulars in this story of a dysfunctional family bravely attempting not to be dysfunctional…The result is realistic, droll, and brutal.”
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About the Narrators
Dennis Boutsikaris is a two-time OBIE award winner. He has received five Audie Awards and seven Golden Earphone Awards for his work in over 100 audiobooks and was voted one of the Best Voices of the Year by AudioFile magazine. He has appeared in numerous Broadway, television, and film roles. He played Mozart on Broadway in Amadeus and has appeared on television shows including Shameless, The Good Wife, House M.D., Grey’s Anatomy, ER, and Law & Order.
Seamus Dever is an award-winning
actor and star of ABC’s Castle as Homicide
Detective Kevin Ryan. His other television roles include Army Wives, General
Hospital, and Mad Men, and his
film credits include Hollywoodland. He
is well known to theater audiences for his acclaimed role of Alex in A Clockwork Orange. He is a graduate of
Carnegie-Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theatre. He and his wife Juliana
reside in Los Angeles with their two rescue dogs and are proud vegetarians active
in animal rights and environmental causes.
Devon Sorvari is an Earphones Award–winning and Audie Award–nominated narrator. She graduated from NYU’s Circle in the Square program and The Classical Studio. She has nationwide theater credits ranging from Shakespeare to musicals.