Heisenberg (play)

{{Short description|2015 play by Simon Stephens}}

{{Not to be confused with|Say My Name! (Musical)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox play

| name = Heisenberg

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| writer = Simon Stephens

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| genre = Drama

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| subject = Love story about a chance encounter between a 42-year-old mother and a 75-year-old butcher, and the chain of events it sets in motion.

| premiere = June 3, 2015

| place = New York City Center (Stage II)

| orig_lang = English

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Heisenberg is a play by English playwright Simon Stephens. It opened off-Broadway on June 3, 2015, in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at New York City Center (Stage II), under the direction of Mark Brokaw.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/theater/review-heisenberg-with-mary-louise-parker-mines-the-extraordinary-in-the-commonplace.html|title= Review: Heisenberg, With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace|last=Brantley|first=Ben|date=June 3, 2015|work=The New York Times|accessdate=August 2, 2017}} The production transferred to Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre opening on October 13, 2016. Both productions starred Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt.{{cite news|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/see-what-the-critics-thought-of-broadways-new-heisenberg|title=See What the Critics Thought of Broadway's New Heisenberg|last=Viagas|first=Robert|date=October 13, 2016 |work=Playbill|accessdate=August 2, 2017}}

The play opened at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End on October 3, 2017. The production starred Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham.

Heisenberg should not be confused with the play Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, about the physicist Werner Heisenberg.