Written by scientist Carl Djerassi, Insufficiency is a comedy of academic manners, mystery and suspense that exposes the passions, petty jealousies and foolish behaviour that scientists and academics so often love to indulge in.

Jerzy Krzyz is a Polish chemist with an unusual specialism, Bubbleology. After arriving at an American university chemistry department, he is determined to secure a permanent senior post. When the other academics dismiss him and his subject, their rivalry gets out of hand as he gives two colleagues some experimental champagne. The champagne mysteriously kills them but was it an accident … or revenge?

Djerassi is the world famous scientist best known for the development of the contraceptive pill. His science-in-theatre plays have been translated into 16 languages and performed in 45 productions around the world.