The Dig: death, Genesis & the double helix

A single workshop performance of Stacie Chaiken’s new solo play:

An American archaeologist is summoned to a dig in the ancient Arab-Hebrew town of Jaffa. They’ve found something—something that could change everything. She’s the only one who can tell them what it is.

And her mother just died. And there’s a lizard in her bathtub.

The Middle East. Matriarchy. Cruelty. It’s a comedy.

In 2003, the LA-based writer-performer (Looking for Louie; What’s the Story?) was invited to “write her next play in the Middle East.” She spent the better part of two years there, traveling, digging. She’s spent the past five years sorting through what she unearthed, workshopping the play all over the US, and now it comes for one performance only to the Hollywood Fringe.