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EIN STEIN dramatically explores the scientific and emotional dynamics between Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric.
The play is set in Mileva's imagination and memory, based on an imaginary conversation she has with her daughter Lieserl.
Albert and Mileva are students together at the polytechnic, where she is the only woman in the physics department. They work together on the...
The play is set in Mileva's imagination and memory, based on an imaginary conversation she has with her daughter Lieserl.
Albert and Mileva are students together at the polytechnic, where she is the only woman in the physics department. They work together on the...
EIN STEIN dramatically explores the scientific and emotional dynamics between Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric.
The play is set in Mileva's imagination and memory, based on an imaginary conversation she has with her daughter Lieserl.
Albert and Mileva are students together at the polytechnic, where she is the only woman in the physics department. They work together on the ideas which ultimately became the famous paper, The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, although her name never appears in the published document. The play dramatizes groundbreaking scientific thinking conflicting with very traditional gender stereotypes – and the tragic consequences which ensue. Mileva becomes pregnant before they marry, and their child, a daughter named Lieserl – disappears. No one knows what happened to her.
The multiple worlds and theories of time which Albert and Mileva discussed and explored are theatrically represented in the character of Lieserl, who appears in this play as a 12-14 year old girl who says she “continues to exist on a string somewhere in the cosmos of the cosmos.” She is a kind of ghost, a manifestation of the universe which Einstein described. In this, she is both a tragic figure, and a glorious version of the miraculous, cosmic possibilities envisioned by her parents.
The play is set in Mileva's imagination and memory, based on an imaginary conversation she has with her daughter Lieserl.
Albert and Mileva are students together at the polytechnic, where she is the only woman in the physics department. They work together on the ideas which ultimately became the famous paper, The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, although her name never appears in the published document. The play dramatizes groundbreaking scientific thinking conflicting with very traditional gender stereotypes – and the tragic consequences which ensue. Mileva becomes pregnant before they marry, and their child, a daughter named Lieserl – disappears. No one knows what happened to her.
The multiple worlds and theories of time which Albert and Mileva discussed and explored are theatrically represented in the character of Lieserl, who appears in this play as a 12-14 year old girl who says she “continues to exist on a string somewhere in the cosmos of the cosmos.” She is a kind of ghost, a manifestation of the universe which Einstein described. In this, she is both a tragic figure, and a glorious version of the miraculous, cosmic possibilities envisioned by her parents.