Based on a true 1941 meeting in occupied Denmark, three historical characters review their roles in understanding nuclear physics and the inevitable ethical dilemmas.
Nuclear threat, policy, power and human motivation are the basis of Michael Frayn’s play COPENHAGEN, being presented by Cesear’s Forum in a limited September/October engagement at Kennedy’s Down Under, Playhouse Square. The mystery of an actual meeting between the two great physicists, German Werner Heisenberg and Danish Niels Bohr in1941 occupied Denmark, is never fully explained. The practical application of nuclear physics and their struggle with the inevitable ethical dilemmas emerge. The play is presented fictionally, “inside the heads” of three characters, Bohr’s wife Margrethe is also present, as time shifts in the past and they relive their memories and speculations on the subsequent ramifications that define history. Michael Frayn’s COPENHAGEN: September 20th through October 26th, Friday and Saturday at 8pm. Two Sunday Matinees at 3 pm on October 6th and 13th, Kennedy’s Down Under, Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Call 216-241-6000 or visit www.playhousesquare.org. Ticket price is: $18.
Tickets $18, Students with valid I>D> at door, $12
Phone: 216-241-6000
2019/09/20 - 2019/10/26
Additional time info:
Two Sunday Matinees at 3pm
Oct. 6th & 13th
Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square
1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115