{"id":105,"date":"2006-01-11T03:07:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=105"},"modified":"2018-08-23T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T03:04:07","slug":"14539-%c2%a0-friedrich-durrenmatt-the-physicists-tr-from-german-by-j-kirkup-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"14539.&nbsp;(Friedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt) The Physicists [tr. from German by J. Kirkup] [play]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the fourth play I\u2019ve read this month by the Swiss writer D\u00fcr\u00adren\u00admatt. All of them are clever and enter\u00adtain\u00ading. The influ\u00adence of both Piran\u00addello and Thorn\u00adton Wilder are obvi\u00adous. I read the first just because it pur\u00adported to be about the obscure, last Roman emper\u00ador in the West, Romu\u00adlus Augus\u00adtus. Well, the play is about as accu\u00adrate his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcally as the <em>Flint\u00adstones <\/em>is a pic\u00adture of ear\u00adly hominids, but it is lots of fun. D\u00fcrrenmatt\u2019s wit sur\u00advives trans\u00adla\u00adtion from Ger\u00adman. The oth\u00ader plays are equal\u00adly bizarre and enter\u00adtain\u00ading. <em>The Physcists <\/em>involves two pos\u00adsi\u00adble mur\u00adder\u00aders who respec\u00adtively think they are New\u00adton and Ein\u00adstein, and a sin\u00adis\u00adter char\u00adac\u00adter named M\u00f6bius who may have a uni\u00adfied field theory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth play I\u2019ve read this month by the Swiss writer D\u00fcr\u00adren\u00admatt. All of them are clever and enter\u00adtain\u00ading. The influ\u00adence of both Piran\u00addello and Thorn\u00adton Wilder are obvi\u00adous. I read the first just because it pur\u00adported to&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=105\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}