ALBERT’S BOY, 2013

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The Marlborough, Brighton
Last Refuge, London

What are the ethics of mass destruction?

It’s 1953 and Albert Einstein is slowly driving himself insane as he struggles to solve the unanswerable question: “Did I do the right thing?”

When a family friend, newly released from a Chinese POW camp, comes to visit, a warm reunion soon becomes an explosive collision of opposing beliefs on the subject of evil, the winning of wars, and the construction of the world’s first weapon of mass destruction – the atomic bomb.

“Why do you think I’ve been locked in this room? I’ve been grieving for a wife, a sister, three hundred thousand Japanese civilians, the presence of a universe gone mad, and the absence of a theory to explain it.”

Written by james Graham

Starring Andrew McDonald and Edward Boon

Produced by Fight and Hope