Einstein’s Violin

When:
27/04/2025 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
2025-04-27T20:00:00+01:00
2025-04-27T21:15:00+01:00
Where:
Upstairs At The Gatehouse
1 North Rd
Highgate Village
London N6 4BD
Cost:
£20(18)
Contact:
Upstairs At The Gatehouse
020 8340 3488

Einstein’s Violin offers a unique insight into the inner life of the twentieth century’s most celebrated scientist. 

Written by Paul Wingfield and performed by Harry Meacher (Einstein), Leora Cohen (violin) and Paul Wingfield (piano), this play with music transports the audience to Princeton on Monday 11 April 1955, in the final days of Albert Einstein’s life.

As he reflects on his lifelong love affair with his violin, Einstein shares his voyage of discovery as a European Jew, shaped above all by the horrors of the Holocaust. Through music and memory, he grapples with fundamental questions of the morality of war, the existence of God, and invites us into the parallel universe of the great man’s alternative career as a violinist.

Published by Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Award winning London Fringe Theatre with a varied programme of drama, musicals and fringe theatre productions. Situated at the top of Highgate Hill we really are London's Top Theatre. Ovation, the in-house company produces several shows each year at Upstairs at the Gatehouse and has been described as one of the best fringe theatre companies in London.