About The Event
This play is a lie. It is, at best, a guess at history.
It is 1941. Hitler is in power, the whisper of a nuclear weapon is moving through the world's laboratories, Oppenheimer will soon be involved. In occupied Copenhagen, a strange event occurs - a secret meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, two of the most important minds in physics, now entangled with the atomic project from opposite sides of the war. Margrethe Bohr is the only other person in the room. What passed between them that night, no one knows.
Copenhagen summons the ghosts of the 3 historical figures to remember: a meeting that could have decided the course of history - who built the bomb first, who lived and who died.
Amidst the discussions of physics, politics, and morality, the play asks a single question: Why did Heisenberg visit Bohr? Why?
We invite you to engage with this question with us as Science, History, and Theatre converge on a single word: Copenhagen.
