sunscreen productions presents copenhagen by michael frayn
(Wednesday 19th - Saturday 22nd October)
It is 1941. Two old friends meet in Copenhagen. One of them is Niels Bohr, a Jewish-Danish physicist. The other is Werner Heisenberg, his former protégé, now a Nazi collaborator. Their countries are gripped in the darkest war the world has ever seen, and their work in quantum mechanics will shortly result in a discovery that will revolutionise mankind – the atomic bomb.
Why did they meet? What did Heisenberg say to Bohr? Do they wish they could change what they said? And what would happen if they could?
Darkly comic, shocking, and poignant in turn, ‘Copenhagen’ is Michael Frayn's masterpiece exploration, set in the afterlife, of what drives us to do what we do, and what might happen if we could take it back.
Presented by the team behind 'Attempts On Her Life' and 'Punk Rock', this promises to be theatre at its most ambitious and explosive.
It is 1941. Two old friends meet in Copenhagen. One of them is Niels Bohr, a Jewish-Danish physicist. The other is Werner Heisenberg, his former protégé, now a Nazi collaborator. Their countries are gripped in the darkest war the world has ever seen, and their work in quantum mechanics will shortly result in a discovery that will revolutionise mankind – the atomic bomb.
Why did they meet? What did Heisenberg say to Bohr? Do they wish they could change what they said? And what would happen if they could?
Darkly comic, shocking, and poignant in turn, ‘Copenhagen’ is Michael Frayn's masterpiece exploration, set in the afterlife, of what drives us to do what we do, and what might happen if we could take it back.
Presented by the team behind 'Attempts On Her Life' and 'Punk Rock', this promises to be theatre at its most ambitious and explosive.
