Drama. "Audacious, thought-provoking and frequently hilarious ... a tightly wound complex of existential postulations, metaphysical ruminations and poop jokes"--Eye Weekly. Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknownst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr. Wishful Thinking. The two losers fall madly in love, fall in science and fail to make a baby. The cast consists of the two boxheads, who also play two disembodied narrators. The conversation between the four voices, an intricately woven semantic circus, traverses boxedness, love and the more ridiculous areas of metaphysical speculation. Through a series of rapid exchanges, verbal games and musical numbers, they discover that all their thoughts come from God, all their words come from the devil, and their desire for love is a habit acquired from the cinema. Sound familiar? Don't be so hard on yourself. Other titles by Darren O'Donnell available from SPD include SOCIAL ACUPUNCTURE: A GUIDE TO SUICIDE, PERFORMANCE AND UTOPIA: AN ESSAY AND A PLAY and the novel YOUR SECRETS SLEEP WITH ME.

Darren O'Donnell is a novelist (Your Secrets Sleep with Me), essayist, playwright (Inoculations, pppeeeeaaaccceee), director, designer, performer and artistic director of Mammalian Diving Reflex. His most recent book is Social Acupuncture: A Guide to Suicide, Performance and Utopia.