Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P.
Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in November 2011.Ĭopenhagen is part of L.A. Joined by Niels' wife, Margrethe, these three brilliant minds converge for an encounter of atomic proportions. Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama imagines their reunion. Criminal copyright infringement is investigated by the FBI and may constitute a felony with a maximum penalty of up to five (5) years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine.How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the Manhattan Project. WARNING: federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition of copyrighted video-visual materials. Further distribution of this presentation by download, streaming, reposting, broadcast, telecast, or in any other manner or medium, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author(s)’s rights, and actionable under applicable copyright law. This video-visual presentation is authorized for non- commercial use only. This video-visual presentation was produced by special arrangement with CONCORD THEATRICALS CORP. German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, had revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but now they were on opposite sides of a world war.Ĭritically-acclaimed since its premiere, Michael Frayn's riveting drama puts you in the heart of one of the greatest moral dilemmas of the 20th century. Nations race to perfect The Bomb, and two Nobel Laureates meet in occupied Denmark for a conversation that will change the course of history.
The Tony Award-winning Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two scientists to discuss the atomic bomb. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award and New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play in 2000. This streamed recording will be available to watch as of 8:00pm EST on Thursday March 3rd, until 11:59 pm EST on Saturday, March 5th.
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