The Physicists, Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Physicists, Friedrich Durrenmatt
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The Physicists

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

Narrator: Bruce Davison, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/25/2010


Synopsis

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 murdererous 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, Matthew Patrick Davis, Bruce Davison, John de Lancie, Matt Gaydos, Harry Groener, Christopher Guilmet, Melinda Page Hamilton, Gregory Itzin, Roma Maffia and Missy Yager.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on May 03, 2024

In the light of the recent success of Oppenheimer, a book about science's role in making things that have the capacity to obliterate civilization as we know it. What we are now calling the Anthropocene some folks say began in earnest with Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "The content of physics is the concern......more

Goodreads review by Greg on December 20, 2024

I consider The Physicists, together with The Visit, to be one of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s undisputed masterpieces. A police inspector investigates the murder of nurse who has been found strangled at a sanatorium. The murderer is known, he is one of three patients at the institution who all believe......more