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The Physicists

August 7 - August 18 | Center Stage
2007 Season

Author: Durrenmatt , Friedrich
Director: O'Rourke, Kevin

In association with the Williams College Summer Theatre Lab. Three inmates at the Cherry Trees Sanatorium believe themselves to be world famous physicists: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Johann Mobius. But are they indeed insane? And what are their actual identities: madmen, murderers or scientists? Durrenmatt’s 1962 comedy is a provocative examination of the impact of nuclear science on global power and the moral tolls of sanity.


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Meggie Nidever

Police Doctor/Mrs. Rose

Kaveh Landsverk

Blocker/Murillo

John Feltch

Police Inspector Richard Fox

Roger Rees

Herbert George Butler (Newton)

Brenda Wehle

Doctor Mathilda von Zahnd

Mark Blum

Ernest Henry Ernesti (Einstein)

Cary Donaldson

Deacon Rose/Louis Sievers (Chief Attendant)

Rob Campbell

Jonathan William Mobius

Lydia Barnett-Mulligan

Monica Stettler

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