september 6 - 10    

Face it: You live in New England and as beautiful as it might be now, it won’t be soon. You deny this, but you know it to be true. So, here's where we get on our little footstool and say, “Get out there in the great outdoors while you can do so without layers of clothing.” (We’re not talking hiking mountains, mind you. That exhausts thinking about it.) We’re talking taking advantage of an open-air venue like The Publick Theatre at Christian Herter Park to see “Copenhagen.’’

Playwright Michael Frayn has said the play’s genesis came when he read about two physicists, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, who met in 1941 in German-occupied Copenhagen and discussed, it seems, atomic weapons. But for whom? And for what purpose? For Frayn, it sparked the thought: “How do we know why people do what they do, and even how one knows what one does oneself. It’s a fundamental question … this is the heart of the play.’’

“Copenhagen,” probably not the mindless romp of the summer, is up Wednesday, Sept 6, Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets: $30.

1175 Soldiers Field Road, Brighton, 617-782-5425