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...MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. Heinar Kipphardt's version of the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearings on Oppenheimer is more dissertation than drama; the play is as inert as stone and a cruel test of audience patience...
...MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, by Heinar Kipphardt, offers audiences the chance to weep over the renowned physicist who. in 1954, was deprived of his security clearance. Dissertation, however, is not drama; the play is as inert as a stone, and Joseph Wiseman as Oppenheimer is mannered and brittle...
...MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, by Heinar Kipphardt, offers audiences a chance to weep over the renowned physicist who, in 1954, was deprived of his security clearance. Dissertation, however, is not drama; the play is as inert as a stone, and Joseph Wiseman as Oppenheimer is mannered, overly European and brittle...
...single sighting gives a clear view of this awkwardly assembled bulk of a book. It is fairly evenly divided between passages that are totally inert and others so good that the eyes sting and the mind refuses to be eased...
...play is as inert as a stone, and Jo seph Wiseman as Oppenheimer is mannered, overly European and brittle. One sees in him neither the passion for pure science nor the intellectual arrogance that one feels were intrinsic characteristics of Oppenheimer. The play, if it is to qualify as drama, ought to tingle with the anguish of a man torn between his country and his conscience. Instead, it is misted over with sadness - as of a man or woman deeply drawn to two equal loves, who must, in the nature of things, lose...