STUART HOAR'S PLAYS bring three exceptional New Zealanders to life - ; Ernest Rutherford, the Nelson-born scientist who split the atom; Archibald McIndoe, the plastic surgeon from Dunedin who remade the burnt faces of World War II pilots and helped heal their damaged psyches; Beatrice Tinsley, the New Plymouth and Christchurch educated astronomer and cosmologist whose research made a profound contribution to our understanding of how galaxies grow and evolve.