Flat Earth Theatre Presents Delicate Particle Logic

Flat Earth Theatre opens its 13th season “The Real Unreal” with the East Coast premiere of Jennifer Blackmer’s memory play DELICATE PARTICLE LOGIC. A view of the life of physicist Lise Meitner through the eyes of artist Edith Hahn (wife of Otto Hahn), DELICATE PARTICLE LOGIC continues Flat Earth's commitment to telling the stories of under-recognized women scientists, most recently illustrated by the Elliot Norton Award and IRNE Award–winning production of Silent Sky.

DELICATE PARTICLE LOGIC will run September 28–October 13, 2018 at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street in Watertown, MA. Tickets may be purchased for $25, or $12.50 for students at https://www.flatearththeatre.com/shows/season-13/delicate-particle-logic/.

DELICATE PARTICLE LOGIC imagines a visit between physicist Lise Meitner, who fled the Nazi regime with the secrets of nuclear fission, and painter Edith Hahn, who has fled from her own personal demons into the recesses of her mind. Science and art collide as these women reminisce across time and space about their conflicts and sacrifices leading to the birth of the atomic age.

“DELICATE PARTICLE LOGIC tells the story of this groundbreaking scientific achievement through the voices of women,” says director Betsy S. Goldman. “It strengthens and expands on this concept by offering the perspective of Edith, Otto’s wife, and, I think more important to the story, an artist. Edith asks the reader/audience to consider the ways in which non-scientists contribute to great discoveries and achievements. I love the way time works in this play – it speaks to the haziness and variety of memory; it speaks to the ways in which we create narratives out of our memories.”

DELICATE PARTICLE LOGIC opens Flat Earth’s 2018–19 season “The Real Unreal.” Featuring Delicate Particle Logic, in which Jennifer Blackmer fuses art and science to unpack questions about the discovery and subsequent usage of atomic fission; Allison Gregory’s Not Medea, a fourth wall–shattering tour de force that pulls the Greek classic apart at the seams; and King of Shadows, an expedition into magical realism and urban fantasy by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Flat Earth’s 13th season spotlights unreliable narrators, and seeks the intrinsic truths found in the gap between real and unreal.