Word: kipphardt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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--A quasi-documentary by Heiner Kipphardt about the hearing in which Dr. Oppenheimer lost his security clearance. Hebert Berghof is in it and so is Joseph Wiseman (in the title role), an actor who never ceases to amaze. At the VIVIAN BEAUMONT, Lincoln Center, W. 65th...
...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...
...with In the Matter of J. Rob ert Oppenheimer, Heinar Kipphardt of fers audiences at Lincoln Center's Vivi an Beaumont Theater the chance to weep over the renowned physicist who in 1954 was deprived of his security clearance. The three-man board rep resenting the Atomic Energy Commission sits in courtroom-style judgment as the testimony unfolds like an in terminable dream. Lawyers, friends, enemies discourse on Oppenheimer's Communist relations and friends, on his in spired leadership of the team of physicists who produced the atomic bomb, and on his reluctance to lend himself...