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WORLDS IN COLLISION By Iddo Netanyahu The play opened on April 28th, 2015 WHO CAN POSSIBLY FATHOM THE ENORMOUS COMPLEXITY OF THE UNIVERSE? THE HUMAN MIND CAN ONLY TRY TO PENETRATE IT. Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) - a doctor and psychoanalyst, creator of unconventional theories in history, geology and astronomy. His book “Worlds in Collision” created a stir among the scientists of the time. His “Ages in Chaos” laid out a revisionist chronology of mankind's history and questioned long-held assumptions about it. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - theoretical physicist, one of the founders of the modern theoretical physics, Nobel Prize laureate in physics of 1921, humanist and Zionist. He resided in Germany, Switzerland and the United States of America. He was awarded honorary doctorates in approximately 20 universities around the world and was a member of numerous Academies of Science. Einstein is the author of more than 300 scientific works in physics and about 150 books and articles about history, philosophy, and current events. Having discovered the Theory of Relativity, which revolutionized mankind's understanding of the universe, Einstein spent the rest of his life trying to discover the grand “master key” to the universe and prove his Unified Field Theory. Translated from English and Directed by Honored Worker of Arts of the Republic of Uzbekistan – NABI ABDURAKHMANOV Set Designers – NABI ABDURAKHMANOV, VASSA VASILYEVA Costume Designer – VASSA VASILYEVA Composer – ALBERT KHALMURZAEV Video design for the production is done by EUGENE FUZULOV's company «FZfilms - Theatre & show stage visual» http://fzfilms.ru/ CAST: Immanuel Velikovsky – OBID ABDURAKHMANOV Albert Einstein – ALBERT KHALMURZAEV
Iddo Netanyahu is an Israeli playwright, author and physician. Among his books is Yoni's Last Battle, an account of the 1976 Entebbe rescue, Itamar K., a political and social satire of Israel, and a book of short stories, The Rescuers. His play A Happy End has been shown world-wide and was recently staged in New York to critical acclaim. His Worlds in Collision is having its world premiere in Tashkent by the Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan. Netanyahu lives in Jerusalem and divides his time between writing and working as a physician. In writing “Worlds in Collision”, I tried to examine the limits of human ability to achieve ultimate knowledge, and the price for doing so. Einstein, one of the two characters in the play who revolutionized our understanding of the universe, gained great fame, whereas Velikovsky, the second character in the play who tried to do so in a different way, gained infamy. Why the difference? Such and other questions contained in the play have always intrigued me. Iddo Netanyahu In one of their meetings, sitting opposite each other, Albert Einstein commented to Immanuel Velikovsky that the exact spot in the universe their chairs were then occupying was maybe a coincidence, but not their meeting: it wasn't possible, he said, that their paths would not cross. The play is inspired by a true series of meetings between Professor Albert Einstein and Doctor Immanuel Velikovsky and on letters and manuscripts exchanged between the two. From the interview with Nabi Abdurakhmanov: «The greatest desire of a scientist or any human being is to comprehend the ultimate plan of God». |
