Dottie & Dottie are an English couple who have been together so long that they share the same pet name. But when Dottie’s neuroscientist husband falls ill, she must deliver a lecture on his behalf.
The journey takes her to a conference in Pontresina, Switzerland, where Nietzsche once holed up. The great thinker looms in the background as Dottie struggles to translate her husband’s rational analysis of the human mind in a way that she and the world can understand. This philosophical adventure asks what is the self, what is thinking, what is the body? And in a godless universe, how do we connect with this thing called the soul?
Actor and author Emily Woof (The Full Monty) gives an expressive performance full of humor and joy and makes use of mixed media storytelling techniques, simple props and dance to unspool a surreal investigation of what it means to be a fully-integrated human.
Produced by Soho Theatre in association with Shared Experience as part of 59E59's Brits Off Broadway.
