Masquers Playhouse Presents COPENHAGEN 7/10 Through 7/12

Michael Frayn's international smash hit play, COPENHAGEN opens Friday July 10 and runs through Sunday July 12 at the Masquers Playhouse in Point Richmond.

COPENHAGEN is Michael Frayn's brilliant dramatization of an actual secret meeting that took place at the height of World War II in Nazi-occupied Denmark, between the Danish scientist Niels Bohr, and his former student and colleague, the German scientist Werner Heisenberg. By invoking the ghosts of Bohr, Heisenberg and Bohr's wife, Margrethe, Frayn invites the audience to participate in a compelling moral debate: did Heisenberg set up the meeting in order to spy for the Nazis, or was he trying to assist the Allies by passing on information about Nazi scientists' progress towards building a nuclear bomb? Was he there to steal or share?

Since it first opened at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1998, Copenhagen has won several major theatre awards including the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play and 1998 Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play. The play has earned huge critical acclaim and has played to enthusiastic audiences. Newsweek hailed it as "[A] brilliant, gripping play which deals with just about the biggest ideas there are. Frayn creates riveting suspense and makes the discussion of quantum physics seem like revelations of character;" and The Guardian claimed "[the play] shows that out of a three-character, one-set play you can create both intellectually gripping drama and a metaphor for what Lear called "the mystery of things"... Frayn builds a brilliant play."

Performances are Friday and Saturday evening at 8 pm and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30. Admission is $10, paid at the door with cash or check. Season ticket holders get in free when they present their season ticket to the box office. The Playhouse is located off of Highway 580 (Richmond Parkway/Castro St exit) at 105 Park Place, Point Richmond across from the Hotel Mac.

Reservations and more information can be found by calling our main line at 510-232-3888 or www.masquers.org.

The show features John Hutchinson, Robert Taylor and Michael Haven and is directed by Theo Collins.

The play is being produced through the theater's Envision program-a series of limited scale productions designed to give performers, directors and audiences the opportunity to explore material that for various reasons we cannot include in our regular season.