See it if You can respect good writing and brilliant set design
Don't see it if You want to be enthralled
All this accepted, ‘Heisenberg’ clearly isn’t aimed at the ‘Pornography’ audience, and probably has considerably more general appeal. It’s fine if you like that kind of thing – but I don’t, and this is a playwright capable of far better.
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I felt a little cheated because I liked the idea of a cool science play. Indeed, thoughout the evening, I kept waiting for the science bit to arrive...Would I pay £85 top price to watch it? Certainly not.
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A gentle, elegiac two-hander that relies for its effects on the delicacy and conviction of its playing.
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Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham are excellent in an immaculately designed production of Simon Stephens’ fable about love and physics.
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A lopsided two-hander...Cranham and Duff are both fine actors.
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...overall, the play feels paradoxically rather predictable.
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Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham star in this two-hander by Simon Stephens in the first production of director Marianne Elliott's new theatre company...The two actors have superb chemistry.
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Portrait of unlikely relationship has moments of charm...It’s also oddly predictable — flecked with moments of charm, yet sometimes clunkily portentous.
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