HAMPSTEAD THEATRE, LONDON: Starring award-winning actors Alex Kingston and Richard Schiff (The West Wing, The Good Doctor) as Margrethe and Niels Bohr, COPENHAGEN occurs in 1941, in the middle of the Second World War, when the great German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart Niels Bohr. They were old friends, and their brilliant collaboration in the twenties had begun to lay bare the mysteries at the heart of the atom. But now Denmark was under German occupation, the meeting was fraught with danger and embarrassment - and Heisenberg was burdened with a terrible secret. Why he went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions which have exercised historians ever since. In Michael Fraynâs multi-award-winning drama Heisenberg meets Bohr and his wife Margrethe once again to look for the answers, and to explore, just as they once had the uncertainty at the heart of the atom, the uncertainty of the human mind.
Public booking opens Tuesday 10 February at 10.30 am BST [X]
