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10 Ratings

3.8

Duration
1H 42min
Language
English
Format
Category

Lyric Poetry & Drama

In Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play, Johann Mobius, the world’s greatest physicist, is locked away in a madhouse along with two other scientists. Why? Because he is haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon, and the other two are convinced they are Einstein and Newton. But are these three actually mad? Or are they playing a murderous game with the world at stake? This darkly comic satire probes the cost of sanity among men of science and whether it is the mad who are the truly sane.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Anne Gee Byrd as Fraulein Doktor Matthew Patrick Davis as Guhl/Jorg-Lukas/Murrillo John de Lancie as Newton Matt Gaydos as Blocher/Adolf-Friedrich/McArthur Harry Groener as Einstein Christopher Guilmet as Police Doctor/Sievers/Wilfried-Kaspar Melinda Page Hamilton as Frau Rose Gregory Itzin as Inspector/Herr Rose Roma Maffia as Sister Boll Missy Yager as Monika Bruce Davison as Möbius

Includes an interview with Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

Directed by Brendon Fox. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in July of 2009.

The Physicists is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

© 2010 L.A. Theatre Works (Audiobook): 9781580816571

Release date

Audiobook: 25 August 2010

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