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fter a
winter of
light-
hearted
musicals, Detroit's
Fisher Theatre gets
serious this spring
with the arrival of
Copenhagen, which
will be performed
April 2-21. A topical
pre-opening night
symposium and
some on-stage seat-
ing is sure to get the
audience into the
thick of the Tony
Award-winning best
play's scientific theme.
information from Bohr? Did he use the meeting to
Left:
The hit drama of Broadway's 2000 season,
confess
his anguish over helping Hider? Or was he
Michael Frayn's
Copenhagen is a perfect blend of science and theater
signaling
Bohr that Germany wouldn't build a
"Copenhagen" is
written by the multitalented Michael Frayn, who
bomb if the Allies didn't?
inspired by an
also is known for such whimsical shows as the farce
actual event, a
Noises Of currently enjoying success in a revival on
meeting between
Imagining The Meeting
Broadway.
two brilliant
In Copenhagen, Frayn faced the challenge of imagin-
An actual event inspired Copenhagen, one that has
physicists during
ing and writing about what might actually have
intrigued and baffled historians for more than 50
World War II.
happened at the meeting. But just recently,
years. A central figure in the play is Niels Bohr, the
Americans got a slightly different version of the
famous Jewish physicist from Denmark who won
Right: Len Cariou encounter when unpublished letters Bohr wrote
the 1922 Nobel Prize for his work on the structure
plays Danish
Heisenberg were released.
of the atom.
physicist Neils
The letters, written in 1957, were to be kept
It was a 1941 meeting between Bohr and fellow
Bohr and
secret
until 2012, but the Bohr family released them
physicist Werner Heisenberg of Germany, a former
Mariette Hartley
because
they felt the play was too sympathetic to
student of Bohr's, that is the centerpiece of the play.
portrays his wife,
Heisenberg.
Longtime friends, whose work together had opened
Margrethe.
In the letters, Bohr expresses dismay at
the way to development of the atomic bomb, the
Heisenberg's assertion during the meeting that
two were now on opposite sides of the conflict dur-
Germany would soon have the bomb. "You ... expressed your
ing World War II.
definite conviction that Germany would win and that it was
Heisenberg, chief of Hitler's A-bomb program, made a
therefore
quite foolish for us to maintain the hope of a differ-
covert trip at great risk to Nazi-occupied Denmark to see
ent
outcome
of the war," Bohr wrote.
Bohr, his old mentor, and Bohr's wife, Margrethe. But the
These
letters
don't entirely resolve the matter, but they make
meeting ended in disaster.
things more intriguing for Copenhagen audiences.
Why did Heisenberg go to Denmark, and what did the two
Actor Len Cariou, a 1979 Tony winner for Sweeney Todd
men say to each other? Did Heisenberg attempt to extract
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In conjunction with the play Copenhagen, a free sympo-
sium will be held 6-9 p.m. Monday, April 1, on the
DaimlerChrysler Science Stage at the new Detroit
Science Center, 5020 John R at Warren.
Titled From A-Bomb to Anthrax: Science, Society and
Terrorism," the symposium brings together participants
from the play, historians, scholars and a nuclear- physicist
congressman.
Panelists include U.S. Rep. Verne Ehlers, chairman of
the House Subcommittee on Environment, Technology
and Standards; Professor Al Saperstein of the Wayne State
University department of physics; Professor Paul. Rose of
Penn State University, author of Heisenberg and the Nazi
Atomic Bomb Project 1939-194 -5; actor Hank- Stratton,
who portrays Heisenberg in Copenhagen; and moderator
Jack Lessenberry, Wayne State journalism professor.
For further information, call the Science Center, at
(313) 577-8400, Ext. 430.