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Drama 'Relativity' questions Einstein's decision to value science over family
SKOKIE, ILL. – Can a person be great without also being good?
That’s the heady question on the table in Mark St. Germain’s “Relativity,” a minute piece on stage at Northlight Theatre in a production directed by BJ Jones. It features the great, year-old Mike Nussbaum – the oldest active Equity performer in the country – as a year-old Albert Einstein, comfortably ensconced in Princeton.
That’s where we catch up with Einstein on a December day in , at the moment when a forty-something Margaret Harding (Katherine Keberlein) catches up with him, just as three clocks in Princeton toll noon, successively rather than in unison. It’s the first of many fun inside jokes in this thoughtful play about all Einstein taught us about relativity.
Margaret tells us she’s a reporter from the “Jewish Daily” looking for an interview. Einstein improbably agrees to meet with her; he even spontaneously invites her to accompany him home for a chat in his office, dominated by his desk and a chalkboard covered with equations (scenic design by Jack Magaw).
Their first minutes together showcase the Einstein we all think we know: avuncular and absent-minded, playful and modest.
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