FOUNDATIONS tells the story of Kurt Godel, the brilliant 20th-century mathematician and logician whose work demonstrated the fundamental incompleteness of any possible formal mathematical system. While his mind could see new truths that among other things led to the development of computers, Godel was also battling mental illness that led him deeper and deeper into paranoia.

The play employs meta-theatrical tricks that mirror the meta-mathematical argument in Godel's Theorem.