Baile | Eolas | Déan Teagmháil Linn
William Lyons
Cambridge, 1911; the Russian Front, 1916; a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy, 1918; Vienna, 1919; Cambridge, 1930s; Connemara, 1948; Ithaca, New York, 1949.
The play looks at how Wittgenstein's wartime experiences - during which he was decorated for bravery - were crucial in his emergence as a brilliant, obsessive, but reclusive and alienated thinker.
Drámaí Ginearálta
Dráma Fada
5
4
9
Some doubling of roles; some male roles played by female
11 April 2011
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum and the American Philosophical Association.
Produced by Riverside Studios
Riverside Studios
Wittgenstein - The Crooked Roads
2015
Methuen
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