More on The DNA Trail

We wrote in an earlier post about The DNA Trail, a series of plays on the subject of DNA which will open in Chicago at the beginning of March. U4 project member Lina Patel, an actress and playwright, wrote one of the plays. She describes her experiences in a new article by journalist Howard Wolinksy which you can read here. You can find out more about the play and see the videos of Lina and the other playwrights talking about the process here. We wish Lina luck with the venture, and we shall look forward to hearing more about the plays in due course.

The DNA Trail

DNA testing is often featured in newspaper articles, on television and in books but, to our knowledge, has never before been the subject of a play. This will change next year with the world premiere of The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion, a production by the Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago. As part of the writing process the playwrights took a genealogical DNA test with Family Tree DNA. One of the playwrights, Lina Patel, discovered that she belonged to haplogroup U4, and she has now joined our haplogroup U4 project at Family Tree DNA.

The DNA trail will run from March 4th to April 11 2010 at Pierce Hall in The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 W. Washington St, Chicago. Further information can be found on the Broadway World website.