A VIVID and powerful drama by Michael Frayn is the next production by the Company of Ten and the first of the new season to be performed in the Abbey Theatre Studio in St Albans.
Copenhagen looks at what might have happened when Werner Heisenberg paid a visit to Niels Bohr in the Danish capital in 1941.
The two men, physicists, teacher and famous pupil, colleague and rival, have a complex relationship and are meeting again after working together during the glory years of nuclear physics in the late 1920s.
But a gulf separates them — one is working for the Nazis and the other living in occupied Denmark and they are both caught up in the Second World War.
The play, which runs from next Friday, October 5, until Saturday, October 13, conveys the genuine excitement of modern scientific inquiry carried out in a spirit of intense rivalry but also fuelled by love, respect and a sense of adventurous seeking after the truth of things.
The award-winning drama is also a whodunit and mystery, asking why Heisenberg went to Denmark and what were his real motives at a time when Hitler wanted to get his hands on an atomic bomb.
Tickets for Copenhagen are available from the Abbey Theatre box office on 01727 857861