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The Abbey Players are very pleased to present the premiere production of a new play: Dr. Rocket’s Last Night on Earth or THE TRIAL OF WERNHER VON BRAUN by Charlotte playwrights Albert Dulin and Arthur “Duke” Ernsberger. The play is a dream with music, both a surreal look at the German scientist who was instrumental in the development of the Apollo moon program for NASA and a harrowing examination of his work prior to his reinvention after World War II. <br/><br/>Von Braun oversaw the development of the V2 rocket for Nazi Germany, an unstoppable weapon that rained destruction and death upon London during the last year of World War II. The work on the rocket program was expedited by concentration camp prisoners. They worked under intolerable conditions, which caused the deaths of 20,000 through illness, starvation, hangings and beatings. Von Braun admitted he knew of their treatment, but was helpless to change it. At the end of the war Von Braun and his team of scienti