Albert's Boy
by James Graham
by James Graham
James Graham's play explores Albert Einstein's anguish over his role in the creation of the atomic bomb through a reunion with a family friend, delving into themes of morality, war, and personal responsibility.
About The Play
About The Play
★★★★ Four Stars, What’s On In London
Albert Einstein is not feeling too good. His house is empty, his cat is missing, he cant remember where he put his violin and he is slowly driving himself insane as he struggles to solve the unanswerable question: Did I do the right thing?
When a family friend, newly released from a Chinese POW camp, comes to visit, a warm reunion soon becomes an explosive collision of opposing beliefs on the subjects of evil, the winning of wars, and the construction of the worlds first weapon of mass destruction, the atomic bomb.
Commemorating the World Year of Physics, the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6th and 9th 1945), the centenary of Einsteins famous papers on relativity, and the 50th anniversary of Einstein’s death, the Finborough Theatres newest writer in residence James Graham has written a blackly humorous and achingly moving play shining light on one of historys most enduring figures and the unwilling father of a monster that the modern world is still struggling to cage.