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The Physicists

START: Remarkable. Each of you is praisi...

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
2
Time & Place
Les Cerisiers, a private sanitorium. Late 1950s.
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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START: Remarkable. Each of you is praising a different theory, but the actual conditions you have to offer are the same: a prison in either case. I prefer the madhouse. Here at least I can’t be exploited by politicians.

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END: Reality is no match for us. It comes to grief at our hands. We must take back our knowledge, and I have taken it back. There is no other solution, and that goes for you too.

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, The Physicists, Grove Press, 1986, pp. 63-64.

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