“Manhattan Project” Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Enjoy The Play (Planet Connections 2010)
by Sarah V. Schweig on June 12, 2010
“The Manhattan Project” was the code name for the research and development of the atomic bomb between 1942 and 1946. The project’s early manifestations did occur in Manhattan, but the project would later expand to about 30 different locations in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. and employ over 130,000 people.
One could assert that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those of a perhaps morose disposition who know seemingly erudite specifics about the making and dropping of the atomic bomb and those who don’t.
Manhattan Project, written by Ricardo Garcia and directed and designed by Oscar A. Mendoza, would also make binary assertions: Events are either predictable or unpredictable, mathematical or chaotic, physical or linguistic, which is to say, tangible or intangible. Even the medium of the play is divided in two—film and theatre.
