Porpentine Theatre Company: Copenhagen

When:
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015 7:00p -
Saturday, Jan 31, 2015 10:00p

Where:
NAVE Gallery
155 Powderhouse Blvd.
Somerville, MA 02144

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Admission:
$14

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Event website:
http://www.porpentineplayers.com/

Porpentine Announces Their Upcoming Production, Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen,
January 21 - January 31, 2014 at the Nave Gallery, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA 02144


Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets: www.porpentinecopenhagen.brownpapertickets.com/


Performance dates and times:
January 21, 22, 23, 24, 29,30, 31 at 7:00pm; January 25 at 3pm


House opens 30 minutes before performance


For more information, visit porpentineplayers.com, or contact [email protected].


Porpentine are pleased to announce their January 2015 residency at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, MA, where they will perform Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen.


In Copenhagen, Frayn re-imagines the famous 1941 meeting of physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, which has been subject to much speculation. Heisenberg was Bohr's finest student and then colleague. His warm relationship with his mentor was damaged beyond repair during this 1941 meeting in Copenhagen. No one knows what exactly the two men discussed. What did Heisenberg believe could be done, and should be done, about atomic bombs? What did he want from Bohr? These questions call up many powerful issues and emotions involving Nazi Germany and nuclear war.

Frayn's Copenhagen revolves around Heisenberg and Bohr's falling out over the moral ramifications of what they have done. The spirits of the two men and Bohr’s wife Margrethe, meet after death to attempt to answer the question, why did Heisenberg come to Copenhagen? As they debate and reject possible answers to that question, the conversation addresses nuclear power and its control, the rationale behind building or not building an atomic bomb, the uncertainty of the past and the inevitability of the future.

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