Siena College’s Creative Arts Department and student theatre program Stage III present “Copenhagen.” The play is by Michael Frayn and directed by Visiting Professor of Creative Arts David Lane. It will run on the College’s main stage in Foy Hall March 26-29 at 8 p.m. and March 29-30 at 2 p.m.
“Copenhagen” is the mystery of the strange impromptu visit of German physicist Werner Heisenberg to Copenhagen in 1941 to see Nobel Prize winning physicist Niels Bohr. Heisenberg had not fled Germany but remained to work on Hitler’s atomic energy program, which Nazi authorities claimed was “in the pursuit of peaceful energy solutions.” Denmark was under German occupation by 1941, and so the two found themselves on very different sides of the war. Now, Frayn explores what might have taken place in the private meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg — and the ghosts of an atomic age that haunt us to this day.
The stars of “Copenhagen” are Emily Scimeca ’14 as Margrethe Bohr, Sean T. Baldwin ’14 as Niels Bohr and Matthew Tenorio ’15 as Werner Heisenberg.
The production’s stage manager is Delia Ernst ’16 and Marybeth Condon ’15 serves as assistant stage manager.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for non-Siena students, and $2 for Siena College faculty, staff and administrators. Siena students are free.
