The Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but fragmentary by Aleks.sierz

Slender new play about political and gender prejudice in 1950s American science British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn's Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood's Mosquitoes (2017) and Marek Horn's Octopolis (2023), the trick lies in balancing intellectual material about often complex scientific subject…

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