The Physicists, Friedrich Durrenmatt

This is a farcical who-dun-it cum meditation on madness. It questions the moral responsibility of science, asking us to address who imposes moral restriction on knowledge, especially when science is in the service of governmental policies. In the end, the play and its premise devolves into an either/or argument. The paradox of the physicist's position in society at the end reminds us of the inherent insanity of those who break paradigms.