- Playwright – Michael Frayn
- Location – Harrogate Studio Theatre
- Director – Richard Naylor
Cast
- Bohr – Ian Rattee
- Heisenberg – Stuart Newsome
- Margarethe – Sue Bravender
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the Nazis had developed the atomic bomb first? Well, Harrogate Dramatic Society is about to reveal just how close they might have come with their production of Michael Frayn’s moving and thought provoking play.
In 1941 Werner Heisenberg, one of the leading German atomic scientists of the day, made a mysterious visit to Niels Bohr, the head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. Frayn’s play examines the reasons behind the visit and how it could have changed the world as we know it. Why did Heisenberg risk both his career and his life to visit his old friend in, what was then, an occupied country? And could what they discussed have resulted in the Nazis getting the bomb before the Allies?
The play presents several intriguing possibilities. Which is the right one?