Hominid plays at Emory's Munroe Theater.
Atlanta, GA – A new play opened last weekend at Emory University. It is a true story of murder, suicide, and the overthrow of a beloved leader – sort of a modern-day MacBeth. The play, called Hominid, has 14 actors, 12 of them portray chimpanzees. That's right, chimpanzees. The bloody incident took place in a colony of captive chimps on an island in the Netherlands. Franz De Waal, a leading primatologist at Emory University, recounted the struggle in his book Chimpanzee Politics. And he advised Atlanta's Out of Hand Theater in adapting it for the
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