Copenhagen January 30, 2009

In 1941, Werner Heisenberg, a brilliant German physicist leading the Nazi atomic bomb team, met in Copenhagen with his mentor and close friend, quantum physicist Niels Bohr, a Jewish Dane living in Nazi-occupied Denmark. As Heisenberg and Bohr, along with Bohr's wife, Margrethe, relive that meeting from their vantage point of a theoretical space without boundaries, they discover in themselves both the uncertainties of human emotion and the consequences of moral responsibility. Michael Frayn's extraordinary play takes these questions out of the realm of physics and World War II and places them firmly into today's volatile world with both humor and compassion.