Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle

An unlikely, enthralling love story finds chemistry in quantum physics

When 42-year-old loud, aggressive American Georgie meets self-effacing, standoffish British butcher Alex, 75 amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, their lives are changed forever. As she stalks and seduces the reticent Alex, Georgie’s motives are never predictable.

The couple – and the audience – can only adhere to the Heisenberg Principle itself which warns that not science cannot explain everything. As Georgie says: “If you watch something closely enough, you have no possible way of telling where it’s going or how fast it’s getting there.”

Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle reunites the Tony and Olivier Award-winning creative team of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time including director Marianne Elliott (War Horse, Angels in America) and playwright Simon Stephens (Fatherland, Pornography), plus Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy, Suffragette) as Georgie and Kenneth Cranham (The Father, An Inspector Calls) as Alex. 

reviews

Daily Mail
“A brilliant love story… unmissable”
 
“Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham are excellent in an immaculately designed production of Simon Stephens’ fable about love and physics”
 
Evening Standard
“Duff and Cranham light up stage with atomic attraction”
 
“Heartfelt and entertaining”
 
“The design, it should be scientifically observed, is little less than gorgeous”
 
Independent
“The two actors have superb chemistry”
 
Financial Times
“A prime pedigree production”
 

Awards & Nominations

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2017
Best Design – WINNER