The play is the result of two years of research during which Fry immersed himself in documents that the world only had access to since The Hebrew University made them available in 2007. They shed new light on Einstein’s early life, his struggles and the years in Berlin during the First World War. “No one really knew Einstein’s early life because when he died in 1955 his will bequeathed all his journals, artefacts and notes to The Hebrew University,” explains Fry. “An Israeli guard literally came in, put everything in a box and shipped it out to Israel.” According to...