Strange Attractors

Synopsis:

An absurdist piece about causality and meaning.

The piece centres on the Princeton office that once was home, in succession, to Albert Einstein, Kurt Gofel – the 20th century’s greatest mathematician – and J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb.

Einstein, in his declining years, fights a rearguard action against quantum mechanics and the physics of uncertainty, at the same time growing more and more uncertain as to the meaning of the way in which he has lived his life.  Godel, the man who single-handedly showed that mathematics is incomplete and therefore incapable of describing the universe is, paradoxically, the only one capable of salvaging anything of Einstein’s causal world.

Together, both vie for the attentions of the beautiful Enola Gay Strange.  That is until the intrusion into their lives of Brotmandel – the Man of Bread – the bringer of Chaos who, strangely, may be causality’s last hope.

Character Breakdown:

The play is a 4-hander:  1 female, 3 males:
ALBERT EINSTEIN. 76
ENOLA GAY STRANGE  30s
KURT GODEL. 49 / PHOTOGRAPHER 1 – one actor.
BROTMANDEL. Late 20s / LONE CHANCE – ENOLA GAY’S father / PHOTOGRAPHER 2 – one actor.

Production History:  Not yet produced.

Running-time: 110 minutes.

Only available in hard copy, which can be obtained through the author.