The Physicists
Poster by Yanyi Liu '23.
The Senior Company Presents The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, directed by Marie Inniss '23.
Three brilliant physicists live together in a ritzy private sanitarium for “the mentally disturbed elite”. One believes he is Sir Issac Newton; the second believes he is Albert Einstein; the third has regular chats with King Solomon. When a gruesome murder upends their quiet routine, the scientists begin to uncover the secrets hiding in plain sight. This absurdist satire from 1962 is full of roller-coaster twists and big questions about the ethics of knowledge, the banality of evil, and where the madhouse ends and the real world begins.
Friday Dec 2nd - 8 pm
Saturday Dec 3rd- 2 pm & 9 pm
Sunday Dec 4th- 2 pm
All shows are in the Frear Ensemble Theater, and are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Director: Marie Inniss
Set Designer: Yanyi Liu
Cast:
Yosué González - MC Arthur/Murillo/Guhl/Jorg-Lukas Yifan Huang - Uwe Sievers/Blocher/Adolf-Friedrich Nya Kuziwa - Fraulein Doktor Mathilde von Zahnd Zivia Lichtenberg - Herbert Georg Beutler (Newton) Reid Mansur - Marta Boll/Monika Stettler Jake Rothman - Inspector Richard Voss/Herr Oskar Rose Jill Sekera - Frau Lina Rose Neil Steinglass - Ernst Heinrich Ernesti (Einstein) Raya Tuffaha - Johann Wilhelm Mobius
