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A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."

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Clancy Chassay

Young Wittgenstein


Karl Johnson

Ludwig Wittgenstein


Michael Gough

Betrand Russell


Tilda Swinton

Lady Ottoline Morrell


Nabil Shaban

Martian


Sally Dexter

Hermine Wittgenstein


Lynn Seymour

Lydia Lopokova


Jill Balcon

Leopoldine Wittgenstein

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