This is the fourth year we collaborate with the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra to create a new play to be presented during the European Researcher’s Night, with the special characteristic of having a cast entirely made up of scientists.

“Mr. de Chimpanzee” (2009), “Flies are Rats that Fly” (2010), “Asn Ala Tyr Lys Lys Gly Glu” (2012) and “E agora, Frankenstein?” (2013) are the plays that constitute the path we have been creating where we reflect about Science, the scientists, and their relation with the work and the surrounding social medium.

In 2013 the theme for the Researcher’s Night is the FUTURE. To address that theme we chose Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” where we encounter the fabulous idea of science creating human life. Today, 200 years after, in the future, the tremendous evolution of our knowledge about the world makes us see that idea as a possibility we may experience in a not so far future. In our adaptation of the text, we departed from Shelley’s story and ended up in the future, our present, imagining what knowledge and which technologies Dr. Frankenstein would use today to breath life into a creature.

So, we follow the evolution of science over the last 200 years, from the technology used by Dr. Frankenstein until this moment when we seem to be on the verge of Shelley’s fabulous idea coming to life.

Our story tackles other subjects besides the scientific and technological ability to create life, like the ethical questions related to such a goal, a strong reflection upon social discrimination, and the statute of women in society. All subjects of the present and the future.