A chain reaction. You tell one painful truth and it leads to two more.

This intense, absorbing and powerful piece of theatre from Michael Frayn brings our 2008/09 Season to a pulsating end.

"...a thrilling demonstration of the power of the word on stage... ...it blazes with life..."
The Scotsman - FOUR STARS

"...an increasingly fascinating detective story... ...this most brilliantly human of plays..."
The Herald - FOUR STARS

"...an incredibly engaging human drama... ...grips from start to finish..."
Metro - FOUR STARS

"...refreshingly heady stuff... ...a technically brilliant play..."
Evening News - FOUR STARS

"The dialogue is positively electric... ...exhilarating, challenging, compelling... ...a uniquely constructed, riveting, intelligent play, performed with focus, style and wit..."
EdinburghGuide.com - FOUR STARS

"By far the strongest of the Lyceum’s productions for many a year... ...intimate and epic..."
ItsOnItsGone.com - FOUR STARS

"...Frayn’s erudite, humane and thrilling script... ...relentlessly paced..."
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Special thanks to the Imperial War Museum for their invaluable help with this video.

In 1941, at the height of the Second World War, German physicist Werner Heisenberg travelled to Copenhagen to visit his friend, collegue and mentor Niels Bohr. But with Denmark under Nazi occupation, Heisenberg leading the German nuclear programme and the half-Jewish Bohr one of the leading experts on atomic physics, the question is - why did he come?

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Special thanks to Professors Andrew Ranicki and José Figueroa-O'Farrill

This ill-fated meeting splintered their friendship, and provoked decades of speculation and debate. Driven to explore the boundaries of science, these men were also placed by history in a time when their work could and would cause unthinkable suffering and horror. So what were Heisenberg’s real motives? Did he really want to put the atom bomb in Hitler’s grasp?

CAST DETAILS
Bohr – Tom Mannion
Heisenberg – Owen Oakeshott
Margrethe – Sally Edwards

SPECIAL EVENT
Pre-show talk
by Copenhagen author Michael Frayn
Thursday 23 April, 6pm
(Please note - this event replaces the previously advertised talk on Tuesday 21 April)
Tickets: £3 (Under 18s free)

This talk is part of a two-day event held in association with the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 23 and 24 April. Download the pdf for further details or read our text only version