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So he's a Jewish Hungarian on the run from the Nazis in London in 1933.
When he has the single scariest idea any human being has ever had.
The Atomic Bomb.
Even worse, the home of Physics then is Berlin.
Which has just become Nazi Berlin.
It is what happens next.
It is a true story.
He was very funny.
And prize-winningly eccentric.
And pretty much no-one has ever heard of him.
Forgotten Jewish Hero.
Forgotten Hungarian Hero.
Forgotten Physicist Hero.
A new take on a very big History.
The Atomic Bomb.
By seeing it through the eyes and life of the very first man to think of it.
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More than any other individual, it was Szilard who stopped the Nazi Bomb.
•MASSIVE HIT ACROSS CANADA, SUMMER 2015... Multiple sell-outs.
•DOZENS OF RAVE REVIEWS... See Below.
•YEARS OF RESEARCH... Bodleian Library, Budapest, etc.
•Plus...
•English writer/ performer Jem Rolls has done more Fringe festivals than anyone else on earth.
Leo Szilard...
“A man too preposterous for fiction”.
Refugee, genius, joker, sole survivor, eventual spouse.
Eccentric, name-dropper, Martian, Einsteinian sidekick.
Instigator of charities, Washington Lobbies, Manhattan Projects, nuclear secrecy.
Pompous, droll, self-indulgent, charming.
Would not give up. Or shut up.
Told in five narrative slices.
Taking us through the key years of 1933-45.
With many interjections to convey the range, humour and times of this extraordinary man.
Jem Rolls harnesses the narrative power.
Of a story.
Where a man.
A most unusual man.
Has in his head.
For years.
Only his head.
The scariest idea.
Any human being has ever had.
Touring:
Ottawa Fringe, 7-17 June
Toronto, Red Sandcastle, 21-25 June
Winnipeg Fringe, 13-24 July
Calgary Fringe, 4-12 August
Edmonton Fringe, 17-27 August
Victoria Fringe, 28 August - 3 September
Vancouver Fringe, 7-17 September
Photo: Leo Szilard. ©1949 Argonne National Laboratory.
2017-05-09
Toronto: Jem Rolls's "The Inventor of All Things" announces 2017 tour including Toronto and Ottawa