Copenhagen at Nave Gallery

In Copenhagen, Michael Frayn reimagines the famous 1941 meeting of famed physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, which has been subject to much speculation. No one knows what exactly these two men -- one a Nobel Prize-winner, the other, his esteemed mentor -- discussed. What did Heisenberg believe could and should be done, about atomic bombs? What did he want from Bohr? These questions call up many powerful issues and emotions involving Nazi Germany and nuclear war. Frayn's Copenhagen revolves around Heisenberg and Bohr's falling out over the moral ramifications of what they had done. The spirits of the two men and Bohr's wife Margrethe, meet after death to attempt to answer the question: Why did Heisenberg come to Copenhagen? Their conversation addresses nuclear power and its control, the rationale behind building an atomic bomb, the uncertainty of the past and the inevitability of the future.