''Oppenheimer'' is a 2015 play on the life of physicist

J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer (; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is oft ...

by the British writer

Tom Morton-Smith Tom Morton-Smith (born 1980) is an English playwright. Biography Morton-Smith studied Drama at the University of East Anglia before training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 2006 he was selected to be part of Fut ...

. It premiered with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon from 15 January to 7 March 2015, transferring to the

Vaudeville Theatre The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on the Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days. It opened in 1870 and was rebuilt twice, although each ...

in London from 27 March to 23 May. Oppenheimer was played by John Heffernan; other cast members included Jamie Wilkes,

Catherine Steadman Catherine Steadman is a British actress and author. Career Steadman trained at the Oxford School of Drama and made her screen debut playing Julia Bertram in '' Mansfield Park''. Since then she has appeared in television series such as ''The Tu ...

, Ben Allen as Edward Teller,

William Gaminara William Gaminara (born 1956) is a Rhodesian-born British actor, screenwriter and playwright, probably best known for playing pathologist Professor Leo Dalton on the television series ''Silent Witness'', from 2002 to 2013. His plays include ''Acco ...

as General Leslie Groves, Ross Armstrong as Haakon Chevalier and Jack Holden as Robert Wilson.

References

2015 plays Plays about World War II Plays based on real people Biographical plays about scientists Cultural depictions of J. Robert Oppenheimer Plays about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Manhattan Project in popular culture {{2010s-play-stub