For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are
not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular
image of the men who made the bomb is of
dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their
way towards a weapon whose devastating power they
could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning
play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn shows us that these
men were passionate, philosophical, and all too human,
even though one of the three historical figures in his
drama, Werner Heisenberg, was the head of the Nazis'
effort to develop a nuclear weapon. The play's other two
characters, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his wife,
Margrethe, are involved with Heisenberg in an after-death
analysis of an actual meeting that has long puzzled
historians. In 1941, the German scientist visited Bohr, his old mentor and long-time friend, in Copenhagen. After a
brief discussion in the Bohrs' home, the two men went for
a short walk. What they discussed on that walk, and its
implications for both scientists, have long been a mystery, even though both scientists gave (conflicting) accounts in
later years.

Frayn's clever dramatic structure, which returns repeatedly
to particular scenes from different points of view, allows
several possible theories as to what his motives could
have been. This isn't the first play to successfully merge
the worlds of science and theater, but it's certainly one of
the most dramatically successful.

-- John Longenbaugh , The Seattle Weekly

Class Fee $5
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Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
Mar 24, 2009 @ 7pm

Class Fee $5
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How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Apr 21, 2009 @ 7pm

Class Fee $5
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TBA
May 19, 2009 @ 7pm

Class Fee $5
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The WICA Conservatory strives to provide the Whidbey
Island community with high quality, innovative,
participatory theatre arts education and training, taught
by theatre professionals and teaching artists; to reflect
the diversity of the community we serve; and to help our
students develop skills and broaden their horizons,
as people and as artists.

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Previously in the WICA Conservatory...

November by David Mamet
Oct 21, 2008 @ 7pm
THE WICA CONSERVATORY

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Cold Read/Stage Read with Tom Churchill provides
an environment for experienced, beginning, and “non”
actors to gather for readings, to learn reading and
performance technique, and to become acquainted with
a broad theatrical repertoire without the pressure of full
performance.
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The Country Girl by Clifford Odets
Nov 18, 2008 @ 7pm

The Country Girl tells the story of a washed-up, alcoholic
stage actor, his devoted wife, and the young director who
puts his own career on the line to give the actor a shot at
a comeback.

Contrary to the title, the play's center is Frank Elgin, a
once-formidable actor whose gifts have been squandered
in alcoholism and self-pity. He gets the opportunity for
artistic redemption when hotshot young director Bernie
Dodd, who remembers Frank's glorious past, takes a
chance on him in the lead role of a Broadway-bound play
trying out in Boston. With self-destructive cunning, the
high-maintenance actor tirelessly seeks ways to ensure
his own failure, as his wife Georgie and Bernie clash in
their struggle to keep him on track.

Class Fee $5
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WICA Conservatory
“A Dickens of a Giggle”
Dec 15, 2008 @ 7.30pm

On Monday, December 15, WICA Conservatory
presents an evening devoted to Charles Dickens
and the history of farce!

All Seats $5
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The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
Dec 16, 2008 @ 7pm

Central themes in The Shape of Things are questions
on the nature of art, psychopathy and intimacy,
explorations of love and people's willingness to do
things for love. It is set in a small university town in the
American Midwest and centers on the lives of four
young students who become emotionally and
romantically involved with each other.

Class Fee $5
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To Fool the Eye by Jeffrey Hatcher
Jan 20, 2009 @ 7pm

In this adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1940 romantic
comedy, Amanda, a poor hat maker from Paris, is invited
to a chateau by an eccentric duchess to spend a weekend
trying to make her suicidal nephew, Albert, forget about
the death of his great love, the divine Leocadia. Amanda,
it turns out, is a dead ringer for the dead woman, and if
she can convince Albert that she is his lost love for just
three days, then Albert just might not kill himself.
A gossamer tale of love and trickery, in which a fake
can give more pleasure than the real thing.

Class Fee $5
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Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Feb 17, 2009 @ 7pm


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