Last Summer: A One-Act Play

Instead of talking about this myself, how about if we just hear what the Ann Arbor District Library has to say?

The University of Michigan Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics brought great minds from all over the world to Ann Arbor for 15 years between WWI and WWII. One evening in 1939, Enrico Fermi tried to convince his friend Werner Heisenberg not to return to Germany, where he would certainly be compelled to help the Nazis develop nuclear weapons.

Last Summer is a new one-act play about this pivotal conversation, based on the physicists’ own writings, written for the stage by award-winning science comics writer Jim Ottaviani, and produced in partnership with the Ann Arbor Civic Theater.

Come join AADL for a live performance of this important new work as part of our Ann Arbor 200 series of Bicentennial Productions, celebrating uncommon stories from Ann Arbor’s history in engagingly uncommon ways.