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The Trial of Doctor Fuchetti

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

The Trial of Doctor Fuchetti – an American play, by local playwright Gaither M. Kodis, is an exploration around the issue of making choices. Imagine a doctor creating and releasing a deadly virus into the world-wide population knowing it would kill many but, in the end, perhaps save many on an overpopulated planet…because the alternative is a nuclear war with an adversary. 

Gaither wrote this play 46 years ago and it remains strangely and terrifyingly still relevant today, complete with a virus, artificial intelligence, nuclear standoff, acronyms you would not believe, and selecting which disaster ought to befall humanity. Perhaps its most profound and critical question: “is judgement the curse of knowledge?” 

The staged reading features 8 local actors including: Vito Zingerelli, Jim Scullin, and Eric Mulholland and featuring Grace Webb as a young AI computer destined to judge all of humanity. Directed by Deana Duncan.

The evening consists of a 40-minute staged reading and a 20-minute interview with the playwright. The interview is moderated by Peter Morton followed by an audience Q&A. 

Playwright Gaither Kodis is a veteran Air Force Pilot and lawyer who conceived this play after serving the US Strategic Air Command during the cold war with the Soviets. Gaither lives in South Whidbey. 

Moderator Peter Morton is a Langley resident, past WICA Board member and retired vice president of Boeing.

SCHEDULE & TICKETS

SEPT 4 | 7:30 PM


$25 Tickets

THE CREATIVE TEAM

Written by Gaither M. Kodis

Directed by Deana Duncan

Moderated by Peter Morton

THE CAST

Featuring:

Baliff: Deana Duncan

Computer: Grace Webb

Alfredo Fuchetti: Vito Zingarelli

Prosecutor: Eric Mulholland

Defense Attorney: Jim Scullin

Dr. Klein: Bob Atkinson

Dr. LePere: George Henny

General Wilson: Billy Tierney

Earlier Event: September 4
Woodpalooza
Later Event: September 11
Gather: Artists and Audience *Canceled*

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.