Copenhagen comes to the Workhouse Theatre
05/01/2012
CAPTION: Bob Malos, Michael Jurenek and Muriel Bonertz perform in the Workhouse production of Copenhagen. Photo by Duane Atter.
The Ivey Award winning Workhouse Theatre Company will present Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn, from April 27 through May 3. Copenhagen is directed by Bryan Bevell and features Muriel Bonertz (previously seen in ‘night Mother), Michael Jurenek (previously seen in How I Learned To Drive and directed Apartment 3A), and Bob Malos.
Synopsys: In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg went to Copenhagen to visit his Danish mentor, Niels Bohr. Together they had revolutionized atomic physics, but now they were on opposite sides of a world war. Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of a private conversation between these two Nobel laureates in which they discuss the nature of existence, physics and the atomic bomb. This Tony Award-winning play is an exploration of why we do what we do, and the roles Bohr and Heisenberg inadvertently played in shaping our post-World War II world.
Show times are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. There is a special pay-what-you-can performance on Monday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door ($13 online) and $13 for students and senior citizens ($11 online). For reservations and tickets go to www.workhousetheatre.org. You may also make walk-up reservations by calling 612-695-7044. All performances are at The Warren – An Artist Habitat, 4400 Osseo Road.
Workhouse Theatre Company has served the North Minneapolis community with full scale productions for six years now. They have cancelled their last show of this season, Dog Sees God, and will be replacing it with a co-production with Flower Shop Project, to be presented in the fall, followed by an indefinite hiatus. The show, Matthew Everett’s But Not For Love, will be directed by Richard Jackson, who directed Workhouse’s award winning ‘night Mother, last year’s Torch Song Trilogy, and was seen in this year’s The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. For info on the show and for auditions go to www.theflowershopproject.com, or email megan@theflowershopproject.com.