Northern Lights Theatre Company presents COPENHAGEN

Northern Lights Theatre Company presents COPENHAGEN

‘Frayn makes ideas zing and sing in this play.’

-Daily Telegraph

Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Simon Kane and Bruce Phillips star in a dramatic revival of Michael Frayn’s award-winning play COPENHAGEN directed by British newcomer Alex Bonham.

Seventy years ago the head of the German Atomic Research programme, Werner Heisenberg, sought out the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr. They were old friends but their countries were at war and the only thing known for certain about the meeting was that it ended their friendship. Four years later after frenzied research on both sides the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Why did Heisenberg come? To spy, to betray, to bargain or to broker one of the boldest deals in history?

The play has garnered critical acclaim winning the Evening Standard Best Play Award in London, the Tony Award in New York, and the Prix Moliere, and has been performed all over the world since its premiere in London in 1998.

It was originally performed in New Zealand ten years ago and is ripe for revival. The newspapers are once again dominated by new research into the atom that has turned Einstein’s theories on their head. Meanwhile Japan struggles to recover from nuclear disaster.

Back in 1941 a handful of atomic scientists held the future of the human race in their hands. The question was what they were going to do with this power.

‘Endlessly fascinating’
-New York Times

31 May-10 June , 2012, TAPAC, 100 Motions Road, Western Springs, Auckland. Book tickets at TAPAC website www.tapac.org.nz or phone TAPAC (09) 845 0295.

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