Alchemy Presents...THE LOVE SONG OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER by Carson Kreitzer * June 21-June 30 * $20
Schedule
Fri Jun 21 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
68 Holley Ave, Huntington, WV, United States, West Virginia 25705 | Huntington, WV
ALCHEMY THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENTS...THE LOVE SONG OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER by Carson Kreitzer
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
J. Robert Oppenheimer's rise and fall erupt in this kaleidoscopic play exploring questions of faith, conscience, and the consequences of the never-ending pursuit of knowledge.
Act One: Math. The fevered wartime drive to build the first nuclear weapon, by a collection of previously academic theoretical physicists, many of them Jews fleeing Hitler's Germany. Success turns to horror when "the Gadget" is dropped, first on Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
Act Two: Aftermath. Oppenheimer confronts his conscience; Russia turns from ally to enemy. The Red scare is in full swing as we shift to the courtroom. Oppenheimer's wife, Kitty, drinks; J. Edger Hoover does the dance of the seven veils; and the Father of the Atomic Bomb has his security clearance revoked, cast out of the world he helped create. In a flash that is the end of his life, J. Robert Oppenheimer paces the desert of the Trinity Test Site, wrestling with his memories and one scary, sexy, unpredictable demon: Lilith, Hebrew mythology's first woman, cast out of Eden for refusing to behave. Hissing in his ear, she goads him to admit what he refuses to acknowledge: an anger that mirrors her own.
"Oppie" is haunted by actions, decisions, and a trinity of women—mother, wife Kitty, and lover, Jean Tatlock. Her suicide is never far from his mind; her Communist ties are never far from the government's.
Come see the show everyone will be talking about!
"Kreitzer has a huge vision… Oppenheimer is superb theater." -The Cincinnati Enquirer
"So much brilliance, ambivalence, ego, history, myth, science, moral argument, emotional heat, poetry and sheer dazzling theatricality are compressed into the mere two hours it takes for Carson Kreitzer's The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer to detonate on the stage…that by the time it is all over, you might easily feel you’ve been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation." -The Chicago Sun-Times
Directed by Leah Turley
This play is rated PG-13 for adult themes and language.
See you there!
Where is it happening?
68 Holley Ave, Huntington, WV, United States, West Virginia 25705
