In dramatizing the story of Wernher von Braun, James Wallert's "The Winning Side" makes compelling the concept of ethics in science: should we admire a mathematical genius who has had antithetical political ideas or are his scientific achievements too valuable to hold his former political beliefs against him? Though the program notes indicate that the play "is a work of dramatic fiction and liberties have been taken,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02PM on October 11, 2018