Fake, Eric Simonson
Fake, Eric Simonson
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Fake

Author: Eric Simonson

Narrator: Kate Arrington, Full Cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/18/2010


Synopsis

Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores the most famous archeological hoax in history. Alternating between 1914 and 1953, journalists and scientists set out to uncover who planted the Piltdown Man skull. Everyone's a suspect, including legendary Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Kate Arrington, Coburn Goss, Francis Guinan, Alan Wilder and Larry Yando.

Fake 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 Brad on October 17, 2021

Fake was a lovely little surprise while I was on Friday night extra-curricular shuttle duty. The dramatization of two key moments in the story of the infamous Piltdown Man (a skull found in 1912 by Charles Dawson that was reported to be the elusive "missing link"): its introduction to the world at l......more

Goodreads review by Gary on July 21, 2020

Everyone loves a good hoax, right? In 1912, archaeologists in Piltdown, England unearthed a skull purported to be from a creature providing the missing link between man and ape. The large humanoid brain-case and more ape-like jawbone led to a celebration of the discovery of the first Englishman. By......more