If you're trying to impress the nuances of genetics research upon an unknowing public, featuring half-naked, singing deliverymen who shimmy their way up DNA-shaped "ladders of love" might not be the most obvious way to go. But that's what you get in The Score, a stylized laboratory drama that switches at will between goofiness and artful poignancy.
The play-turned-film was the brainchild of Michael Hayden, a medical geneticist at the University of British Columbia. He commissioned the work, based loosely on his own lab, after the near completion of the Human Genome Project motivated him to communicate with the public about the project's implications. Kim Collier of the Electric Company Theatre in Vancouver took on the task, visiting Hayden's laboratory and attending its scientific meetings over a period of months to get a feel for lab culture.
In the wake of their own genetic discovery - the gene for a ...
