$4.81
Details
The Physicists
Author: Friedrich Drrenmatt
Narrator: Anne Gee Byrd
Unabridged: 1 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 08/25/2010
Genre: Drama - Continental European
Synopsis
Johann Mobius, the worlds 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. Includes a conversation with Richard Rhodes, America's preeminent historian of the nuclear age. Hes the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and its companion book, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. 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.
by Molire
In this biting comedy of errors, the hapless Arnolphe is undone by his own double dealing and double standards. The School for Wives was first performed at the Palais Royal theatre on December 26, 1662, and is considered by many to be Molieres maste...
Published: 09/25/2009
by Ari Roth
Based on Peter Sichrovskys book of the same name, Born Guilty is a moving and elegiac play about one man's journey into the hearts of children raised by Nazi parents. As Peter, a Jewish journalist, digs into the past, he faces psychological barrier...
Published: 12/07/2009
by Yasmina Reza
How much would you pay for a painting with nothing on it? Would it be art? Marcs best friend Serge has just bought a very expensive and very white painting. To Marc, it is a joke, and as battle lines are drawn, old friends use the painting to sett...
Published: 10/25/2009
by Henrik Ibsen
When a small town relies on tourists flocking to its baths, will a report of dangerously polluted waters be enough to shut them down? Henrik Ibsen weighs the cost of public health versus a towns livelihood in An Enemy of the People. An L.A. Theatre...
Published: 06/15/2014
by Friedrich von Schiller
Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Wrestling with her own conscience, the Queen agonizes over Mary's fate, amidst fears for her own life. Court intrigue has never been more gripping than in this...
Published: 01/01/2007
by Jean Anouilh
Waiting to be punished for his part in Becket's murder, King Henry II re-lives his deeply felt relationship with the saint, once his dearest friend and partner in unbridled decadence. His catastrophic mistake? To appoint Becket Archbishop - for Beck...
Published: 08/01/2005
by Jean Anouilh
The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally pr...
Published: 10/01/2005
by Henrik Ibsen
Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Noras well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsens play is as ...
Published: 05/01/2012
by Molire
Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molire's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family and manipulates the patriarch into giving up his fo...
Published: 08/18/2010