GADFLY

Gadfly explores the power of the establishment to determine what we call accepted Truth, and chronicles how it has historically been the outsider that has moved our understanding of Truth forward.

The play is a cosmic Cabaret where special guests are invited to defend their teachings or actions — Socrates, Copernicus, Columbus, Galileo, Einstein, Darwin, and science philosopher William Dembski, among others. These visitations are marshaled by a musical Poet Guide named Virgil, backed by a British threesome with a ukulele and a squeeze box.

Virgil keeps the action moving forward as the “Idols of the Institution” play judge and jury over the minds of history’s greatest thinkers. The resulting journey beyond space and time sheds light on the present claims of science in the contemporary age — and is, above all else, an exoneration of contemporary scholars to pursue truth wherever they find it.