‘COPENHAGEN’ by Michael Frayne at the Sean O’Casey Theatre

For two nights only at the Sean O’Casey Theatre

From the visiting German group – ‘The Provisional Players’ , for two performances only – ‘Copenhagen’ :

What the critics said (about the previous run in Tuebingen):
“enthralling piece of chamber theatre”,”ambitious production”, “wonderful intensity”, “politics and physics are intervowen in an emotionally intense manner”

What is it all about:

September 1941. Copenhagen.

In the midst of the Second World War, German physicist Werner Heisenberg visits his old friend and mentor Niels Bohr in Nazi-occupied Denmark.
Why did he come? Did he try to convey information about a German nuclear program to the most well-connected scientist in occupied Europe? Or did he try to spy on an Alliedprogram? Or did he come for an altogether different reason? It’s only clear that after this
visit a life-long friendship was broken beyond repair, and Heisenberg and Bohr tried to figure out for the rest of their lives how things could have gone so wrong.

In Michael Frayn’s acclaimed play “Copenhagen” they get another chance – this time from beyond the grave – to understand what happened. Joined by Margrethe Bohr they grapple with the thing most difficult to understand of all – man himself.