Actors’ Summit Theater pulled off another excellent production last night. Mer and I went to see QED, a play about the life of physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED). He also worked on the Manhattan Project. He had many interests including biology, music, theater, and more. He was a funny man, and the play brought many of these things out. It was mostly a one-man show (there is one small part of a college student as well) with the theater co-founder, Neil Thackaberry, and he pulls off a long play with many lines quite well. The theater was packed out, which made me happy for the theater, but confused me. Sometime the theater is bursting, and sometime is it half empty. I’m never sure what accounts for it. On this occasion, there was the interesting mix of the Kent State Physics Department and members of a local synagogue that made up much of the audience. I did point out to Mer that this was the second play about physicists in three years, and both sold well. Physics folks are just interesting, witty, and talented people. Did I mention that I was a physics major?
Feynman was a fairly outspoken atheist, and this play takes place near the end of his life. I like theater that shows me other perspectives because it makes me think about my beliefs. Ahhhhh, the magic of theater.
Anyway, if you are in NE Ohio (and who would not like to be?), check out QED.