Well, it's been a while, but after a rather long hiatus, Ton of Bricks are once more heading for the stage.
From Friday, 24th April - Sunday, 26th April, we'll be performing Michael Frayn's fantastic play Copenhagen at Café & Bar zuhause. After Love Letters in 2011, Sarah and I have joined up with our old partner in crime Tilman Floehr to bring you a new piece of theatre:
In the autumn of 1941, when the Nazis
were at the pinnacle of their power in Europe, German physicist
Werner Heisenberg paid a visit to his Danish colleague, friend and
former mentor Niels Bohr in occupied Copenhagen. Together, both men
revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s, but they now find
themselves on opposing sides of the war. This famous meeting is
overshadowed by mutual uncertainty and fear of treason. What
Heisenberg hoped to accomplish remains unclear to this day – but
that night saw the end of their longstanding friendship.
Michael Frayn's award winning play
Copenhagen offers intriguing speculation on an event that
still fascinates historians: Long after their deaths, the two
physicists, together with Bohr's wife Margrethe, meet again to
revisit that fateful night. Their attempt to recollect what happened
illuminates a friendship both held together and torn apart by
science. As the three of them explore the different directions their
meeting could have taken, they touch on questions of collective and
individual guilt and responsibility, and if “we can ever know why
we do what we do”. What they discover is less what really happened,
but what could have happened instead - “that final core of
uncertainty at the heart of things”.
Sounds good? We think so, too. So be sure to tell your friends and drop by. Tickets will be 5 Euros and can be ordered at tonofbricks@gmx.de.
Here's the dates again:
Friday, 24th April - 7.30 pm
Saturday, 25th April - 7.30 pm
Sunday, 26th April - 5.00 pm
See you there.
Cheers,
ben
From left to right: Tilman Floehr as Heisenberg, Sarah Bingham as Margrethe, Ben Sonntag as Bohr
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