Copenhagen

In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg goes to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Together they revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but now they are on opposite sides of a world war and on the precipice of contributing to the creation of the world’s first weapon of mass destruction.  As the two men—and Bohr's wife, Margrethe—revisit that pivotal encounter from beyond the grave, they wrestle with memory, morality, friendship, and the profound consequences of scientific discovery. Blending history, philosophy, and human drama, the play asks whether we can ever truly know the past—or whether every attempt to understand it reveals as much about ourselves as the events we seek to explain.