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by Charlotte Jones

Presented by BCA Resident Theatre Company:
Publick Theatre Boston


Felix Humble, theoretical physicist, has left Cambridge and his search for a unified “Theory of Everything” to attend his beekeeper father’s funeral - and finds himself in the middle of a hornet’s nest instead. His overbearing mother Flora has exiled the bees, and taken the boorish next-door neighbor as her lover. Add a mousey family friend, a dutiful gardener, and a visitor from his own romantic past, and like the bees, Felix bumbles to find order amid the chaos. Allusions to Shakespeare’s Hamlet anchor this award-winning comedy in its New England premiere, taking the lid off the gardens of English suburbia to explore the physics of attraction and family, and the complex struggle to be (but not to bee) in a constantly shifting universe.

Approximate Running Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.

Recommended for ages 12 and older due to mature themes, language, and content.

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