description: The birth of Armageddon. The first H-bomb detonates and the proud father is Edward Teller. But he's on a collision course with Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the bomb that obliterated Hiroshima. Now Oppenheimer has turned pacifist and the government will stop at nothing to "neutralize" him. And Teller is their star witness! The collision course traveled by Edward Teller, father of the "H" Bomb, and Robert Oppenheimer, whose bomb was dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, is the sobering subject of The Real Dr. Strangelove. Adapted from the book by Peter Goodchild, director Matt August presents this harrowing tale that takes place at the height of the "Red Scare." In the play, Oppenheimer has turned pacifist and the government will stop at nothing to "neutralize" him. At his trial, his rival in science, Teller - "the real Dr. Strangelove" - emerges as the prosecution's star witness. Drawing on interviews he conducted, manuscript materials, and secondary sources, Goodchild sketches a revealing portrait of the brilliant-but-tortured Teller as a gifted and extraordinarily influential figure, although certainly not a popular one. The LATW production of Strangelove stars Simon Templeman (TV's "Charmed", "24", "Monk") as Teller. LATW veteran John de Lancie, best known as "Q" on the long-running "Star Trek": Voyager series, plays Lewis Strauss, the one-time assistant to Herbert Hoover who became a Rear Admiral in the Navy during World War II. The play also features Rafael Sbarge (The Cherry Orchard at the Mark Taper) who plays Hans Bethe, the head of the theoretical division at Los Alamos and a government advisor, Jonathan Nichols ("CSI", "Without a Trace") who plays Luis Alvarez, and Joe Spano ("Hill Street Blues") as Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. The Real Dr. Strangelove is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
language: English
title: The Real Dr. Strangelove
titlecomplete: The Real Dr. Strangelove (Library Edition Audio CDs)
genres: Science, Biography, History
ratings_count: 38
publisher: L.A. Theatre Works