The Interview takes to the stage at City and Science Biennial, Madrid

Mestizajes

When

2025/11/22
20:00

Place

Teatro Fernando de Rojas - Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Organizers

Círculo de Bellas Artes and Barcelona City Council. Collaborators: TeatrIEM (CSIC), Fundación Banco Sabadell and DIPC.

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The play La Entrevista (The Interview), written in the frame of DIPC's “Mestizajes” program, returns to the stage twelve years after its premiere. On Friday, November 21, and Saturday, November 22, it will be performed at the Teatro Fernando de Rojas - Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, as part of the new edition of "Ciudad y Ciencia" biennial.

The interview is a play written by writer Luisa Etxenike and physicist and writer Gustavo Ariel Schwartz (CSIC, DIPC Associate). It was premiered in 2013 at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre in Donostia/San Sebastián, and then performed in Bilbao, Vitoria and Pamplona in the context of the Passion for Knowledge International Festival 2013 organised by DIPC.

Staged as an encounter between a prestigious scientist at the peak of his career and an exasperating scientific journalist, the play The interview gradually takes shape as an impassioned debate about such topical subjects as the importance and responsibility of scientific research and its relationship with society and public life. However, as the dramatic intrigue progresses, the two main characters cannot prevent this debate from uncovering a second story in which the characters’ identity will take on new features, and their relationship will acquire an unforeseen complexity. Built on personal and moral ambitions and conflicts, the relationship that The interview will gradually reveal will explicitly reflect the one between two of the most important scientists of the 20th century: the Dane, Niels Bohr, and the German, Werner Heisenberg, which suddenly ended after their famous conversation in Copenhagen in 1941.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.