The Cultch | Vancouver East Cultural Centre
2010-2011: Vancouver's most intimate venue. Contemporary theatre, dance and music

Written by Catherine Fargher
Directed by Jessica Wilson (Australia)

“Creatively, it’s a treat. Visually, it’s a new standard.”
– Timeout Chicago

A daughter’s love and a father’s need is a recipe for interesting things indeed.

When a man loses his ear in a bizarre cycling accident, he cannot shake the yearning to replace it. A mysterious Dr. Egg offers to grow him a new ear, but needs a DNA sample from the man’s daughter in order to do so. The man refuses to harm his daughter, but as she is eager to make him happy, she finds her way to the lab (but like all good fairytales, the story is not a simple one and the ear comes at great cost). The doctor’s magic elixir, and this story, yields a dilemma far more challenging than ‘happily ever after’.

Through a distinctive combination of puppetry, stop motion animation, original music and physical performance, this exquisite production playfully explores the moral and ethical dilemmas society faces as new developments are made in science, technology
and medicine.

Based on the bio-ethical story by Catherine Fargher, Dr. Egg exhibits the rich visual traits of director Jessica Wilson in a production developed by Redmoon Theatre.