Overview
Character Name
Strauss
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Time & Place
A liminal space representing Oppenheimer’s inner consciousness, a laboratory in the Los Alamos Desert, 1940s, a House of Representatives Hearing Chamber, 1950s
Analysis
Commissioner Lewis Strauss, a supporting character in The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer and based off a historical figure, is the head of the Atomic Energy Commission. With the authority appointed by Truman to assess how the nuclear program in the United States would
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