An Immaculate Misconception, Carl Djerassi
An Immaculate Misconception, Carl Djerassi
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An Immaculate Misconception

Author: Carl Djerassi

Narrator: JoBeth Williams, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2004


Synopsis

Dr. Melanie Laidlaw is a scientist developing the first use of ICSI, short for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Her collaborator, Dr. Felix Frankenthaler, turns out to have his own ideas about how to implement their new procedure. The wild card is Melanie’s new lover, Menachem Dvir, a fellow scientist. This darkly comic menage-a-tois plays out not only in bedrooms and labs, but also in test tubes and under the microscope. A Brave New World indeed!

Includes an interview with Liza Mundy, a staff writer at the Washington Post and the author of "Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World".

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Philip Casnoff as Menachem Dvir
Kevin Kilner as Dr. Felix Frankenthaler
Kendall Schmidt as Adam
Jobeth Williams as Dr. Melanie Laidlaw

Directed by Jenny Sullivan. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

An Immaculate Misconception is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gronk on October 05, 2021

Djerassi's "science-in-fiction" is good, his fiction-in-science is not. I enjoyed his descriptions of what it takes to do research, get funding, start a company, get a product through FDA approval, etc. The problem is his fiction. Narration is a mess. He uses a third person narrator AND first person......more