Wittgenstein - The Crooked Roads

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century

He published only one book in his lifetime - a masterpiece that shaped the evolution of philosophy and baffled his teachers

The play spans most of his life - from his early encounters with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge to a final trip to New York via the Russian Front, portraying the moving and philosophically acute journey of this tortured genius

REVIEWS

"This play 'is undaunted by [Wittgenstein's] famously incomprehensible ideas . . . It grabs philosophical enquiry by the shoulders and gives it a good shake ... This is a show brimming with ideas and these playful techniques lend a lightness to proceeding, a sense of fun which aids in the digestion of some baffling philosophical ideas ... Did we understand them all? No. Will you understand them? Probably not. Does that matter? Not a bit. In fact that's the whole point. As we find in the brilliant Viva scene, very few people understood Wittgenstein, not even his previous teachers" ~ Londonist