Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
A public reading to celebrate the United Nations International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
Date: Friday, Jan. 31
Time: 7:30 pm (doors open at 7)
Location: Physics Building Room 165, 116 Science Pl., Saskatoon
Tickets not required | Pay-what-you-want / donation at the door
About this event
Performers: Skye Brandon, Kris Bratton, Elizabeth Nepjuk
With welcome remarks from Carla Orosz (Associate Professor, School for the Arts) and Steven Rayan (Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics; Director, quanTA Centre)
This beloved Tony Award-winning play, which premiered on Broadway 25 years ago, concerns a pivotal moment in the history of quantum physics: a trip made by one revered quantum thinker, Werner Heisenberg, to Copenhagen in 1941 to visit another, his former supervisor Niels Bohr.
The exact content of the meeting between them has never fully been known, although it is understood that they discussed and debated the emergence of nuclear weapons and the ethics around it. The play, in true quantum fashion, presents many different ways their conversation might have gone, exploring the human side of quantum at a time when quantum theory was reshaping science and when World War II was reshaping the world.
This reading is produced by the Entangled Spaces Theatre Collective with support from the University of Saskatchewan Quantum Innovation Signature Area, quanTA Centre and School for the Arts.
A Canadian Actors' Equity Association production under the Artists' Collective Policy.
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