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Darwin in Malibu 
March 26-April 18, 2010
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When the world's most famous scientist dies, does he go to heaven or hell? Neither, of course; he goes to Malibu! In this ingenious new comedy by Crispin Whittell, the year after his two hundredth birthday finds Charles Darwin spending his afterlife lounging around a Malibu beach house, observing pelicans and sipping banana milkshakes, befriended by a California girl young enough to be his great-granddaughter's great-granddaughter. Things shake up when two more famous dead people show up: biologist Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, still stuck in their classic 150-year-old debate over religion and evolution. The battle of ideas turns into a battle of wits, so funny and fierce it starts an earthquake. In the course of this rollicking matchup, they answer a lot of life's toughest questions: How did they fit the dinosaurs onto Noah's Ark? Are there shotguns in the afterlife? And the most important question of all: why none of them managed to get into heaven!
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201 East Brambleton Avenue
Norfolk, VA 23510 -
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Tickets: $15/Adult, $12/Senior, Student, Military
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March 26-April 18, 2010Times:
Thursday-Saturday 8:00pm, Sunday 2:30pm -
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