juggling

Sorry it’s been a bit since I last wrote! One of the most difficult things about being an actor is that you always need about five other jobs on top of acting. I teach acting full time at the Boston Conservatory and part time at Suffolk University, and now that school has started up again, I’ve been quite busy: Classes all day, and then the show at night, riding my bike in the ice from school to school to theatre. I think about Heisenberg’s trek thru a ruined Germany on his bike at the end of the play to see his wife and children and realize that I have nothing to complain about.

I’m also working on writing a new play, The Hotel Nepenthe, which will go up at the little black box at BoCo (that’s what we call Boston Conservatory for short) the weekend after we close Copenhagen.

Difficult Plays

The beginning of our first five show week-end! We haven’t done the play twice in one day yet (it’s going to be quite the challenge, I think!) Trying to conserve energy as best I can. Will suggests we perform the second show first, so that we aren’t tired for the second show. I wonder if that’s possible, or if Einstein could have worked that out?

I also wonder how many calories one burns just by talking? I guess not much, or else Rush Limbaugh would be thin… Maybe there’s a “Copenhagen” diet we could push: do the play twice a day as your workout. Eat some grapefruit. Voila!

Heisenberg’s Son

The theatre just received a very kind and thoughtful letter from Dr. Jochen Heisenberg, Heisenberg’s son (who I saw speak at Harvard a month ago) via Kati Mitchell, who is in charge of the press/public relations for the theatre.

An email from Heisenberg’s son

This afternoon Kati Mitchell, our Director of Press and Public Relations, received a wonderful email from Jochen Heisenberg, Werner Heisenberg’s son, a professor of physics at the University of New Hampshire. Mr. Heisenberg attended Wednesday night’s performance of Copenhagen.

-Nicholas Peterson

Dear Kati,

If i may call you that?

Thank you indeed for the wonderful experience of seeing this different “Copenhagen” performance. As you know, we have been guests at a number of performances since the NY opening in 2000, and I have had the burdensome opportunity to become a participant in those symposia that dealt with the controversy arising out of this play.

What was so refreshing this time was the fact that the play was allowed to be a drama on many levels and that the one- dimensional, contentious aspects did not dominate the many-layered personal story.

Opening Night

We have opened the play!

Rehearsals are officially over and it is now just the three of us and Amy alone with the audience. It has been an exciting experience, getting the play up.

Many kind words, a party in the lobby. Scott seems pleased, which means a lot. We are all ravenous and thirsty and giddy. (at least, I am!)