We're living in in uncertain times. We're
living in anxious times. This is a play
that is based on the idea that do you know what that uncertainty rather than being
frightening it might be the start of the
most remarkable adventure and if there
anything that's going to make that adventure magical it's the incredible things that
human beings can do to one another.
I didn't really know what the uncertainty
principle was but I thought there was
something incredibly beautiful about
these characters who find each other just by happenstance and through the course of six
scenes and six weeks they affect surprising changes in each other and in themselves.
It's such an astonishing thing to bring together the
team that made the Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-time such a joy to
bring them back together to work on
Heisenberg clearly Marianne Elliott is in my
opinion the greatest living theatre
director to work with her again is an
absolute joy and she's brought Bunny
Christie that incredible designer and
Paule Constable whose lighting design
astonished the world on Curious Incident
And to have Anne-Marie Duff and Ken Cranham two of the greatest actors of our
time singing that playing for me I think it's going to be magical
What Simon did was he took the metaphor
the equation the uncertainty principle
equation by Heisenberg and used it as a
metaphor for how human beings work
There are two ideas at the heart of the play:
One is if you don’t know what is going to happen in your life that’s not a bad thing.
That actually to be alive
to be human is empowered by the
alertness of the unpredictable the other
idea underpinning the play is that
actually as humans we can make each other
better than we are in isolation
that's what it's about
