Based on the true story of an extraordinary weekend in the life of the young Einstein, spent in Como, Italy in 1900 which changed him forever. Read more …
The 21 year-old Albert has wild dreams about angels dancing on beams of light and secret passionate love-making, which would lead both to his greatest discovery, and to his greatest secret: the hidden love child whose fate would irreparably break his heart.
Featuring Finn den Hertog and Ailsa Courtney.
While McCartney succeeds in capturing [Albert Einstein's] self-obsessed, feckless, capricious nature here, (with Finn Den Hertog in fine form) the play is overly skewed by a feminist slant that suggests that without Mileva he would have amounted to nothing. Mileva’s sacrifice may be placed in the foreground here, but Einstein’s genius was uniquely all his own – feet of clay or no.
Finn Den Hertog turns in a heroic performance as the inspired, charismatic and completely self-absorbed young Einstein. But a girlish Ailsa Courtney never looks comfortable with the role of a brilliant women betrayed by biology; and doomed to a life in the shadow of a man who, in the end, did not even love her enough to make their marriage a success.
Stage Whispers: playwright Nicola McCartney discusses her new play
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday May 2, 2011, until Saturday May 7, 2011. More info: http://playpiepint.com
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