Subtitled "The Most Lamentable Tragedy of William Payne, M.D.," PHARMACOPEIA gleefully takes well-aimed shots at the medical industrial complex. ..". grabs you by the lapels and demands to be reckoned with, every moment of every scene ... hovers between epiphany and fiasco, inspiration and indulgence. Call it sheer theatrical brilliance or mere pretentious twaddle, but you always know you're seeing something; indifference is not an option ... writer Gil Kofman's gleefully offensive new medical lampoon, PHARMACOPEIA: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of William Payne, MD ... PHARMACOPEIA achieves something close to dialectical clarity ..." -Rob Kendt, Los Angeles Times ..". The script is clever and biting ..." -Neal Weaver, L A Weekly