In 1941, two friends - a mentor and his able protégé` - take a brief walk on a chilly evening in Copenhagen. The mentor returns home alone in a furious state. The friendship is over. Copenhagen smartly begins as a study into the end of a friendship, but grows into something more powerful and evocative.

No one really knows what was said on that evening when two of the world's leading physicists met in 1941. While living in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen, Neils Bohr was visited by his former student, German atomic scientist Werner Heisenberg. The two went for a walk in order to talk without being monitored by the Gestapo. Bohr angrily returned home without Heisenberg. Heisenberg returned to his work developing atomic power (and possibly weapons) for Nazi Germany. Bohr was eventually smuggled to Sweden and later worked in America on the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.

Michael Frayn's play speculates on the contents of that fateful conversation. Bohr, his wife Margrethe and Heisenberg unite to reveal what might have been said during the events of that evening, intertwining the complex languages of physics, uncertainty, and human emotion. Copenhagen was the winner of the Tony award for the Best Play of 2000.

Darice Clewell - Director