The Heretic
tlambert | February 23, 2011In Richard's Bean play The
Heretic
anthropogenic global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a worldwide
conspiracy of climate scientists.
In David Williamson's play Heretic the role of nurture in
anthropology is a hoax perpetrated by two young Samoan women on March 13, 1926.
When you boil down the premise of each play down to its essence, it
sound ridiculous and it is. It does make for a good story -- the lone
heretic standing up to the scientific orthodoxy and proving them
wrong. And from most accounts each play was enjoyable to those who
swallowed the premise, but it each a case a good story…