German subscription cinema and literature
8. Die Physiker
Reasons to study this work
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Definitely a play to stretch the more gifted, maybe for Oxbridge entrance and those with an interest in science and ethics.
The interest of the work
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A nurse has been murdered in a mental asylum, the second one in a short time. The inhabitants are three scientists each pretending to be another one and each with a different, enormous secret. Mirroring the tensions of the cold war in the 50's the play is considered to be Dürrenmatt's best.
