Oppenheimer, RSC Swan, Stratford upon Avon - review: Immaculately acted
Have dramas about tormented scientists ever been more in vogue? After Turing and Hawking on screen, the Royal Shakespeare Company has put J Robert Oppenheimer on stage. Playwright Tom Morton-Smith makes an easily justifiable claim that the chief architect of the nuclear bomb that America dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a bigger effect, not just on the history of the last century, but on philosophical debate for…