Farm Hall by Katherine Moar immerses us in the summer of 1945 – a crucial moment in history following Hitler's defeat and the Allies’ impending World War II victory. The play centres on six renowned German scientists, held at Farm Hall estate in the UK, aimed at extracting their knowledge about how close Germany got to developing an atomic bomb. These scientists, seized before completing their research, grapple with the dilemma of revealing their progress. The tension intensifies when they learn the United States has successfully created and used an atomic bomb in Japan, leading to a shocking realisation of the potential devastation their work could have caused.
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