Copenhagen

English language

Published Aug. 4, 2009

ISBN:
978-0-413-72490-8
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Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based on an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It premiered in London in 1998 at the National Theatre, running for more than 300 performances, starring David Burke (Niels Bohr), Sara Kestelman (Margrethe Bohr), and Matthew Marsh (Werner Heisenberg).It opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on 11 April 2000 and ran for 326 performances. Directed by Michael Blakemore, it starred Philip Bosco (Niels Bohr), Michael Cumpsty (Werner Heisenberg), and Blair Brown (Margrethe Bohr). It won the Tony Award for Best Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Blair Brown, and Best Direction of a Play (Michael Blakemore). In 2002, the play was adapted as a film by Howard Davies, produced by the BBC and presented on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.

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What do you do, when the show in the theater you attended last night does not let you go? You do some searching, find the book and read the play to relive it again. Copenhagen lets you dream about the age when fundamental science come to be through heated debate of the greatest scientists, still preserving those scientists as human beings - emotional, confused, vulnerable and afraid of the war they are later captured in. The play retells you important events of the friendship between Heisenberg and Bohr, offers you to get to know both of them, but in the end you have to devise your own conclusion - what did Heisenberg wanted to say in Copenhagen, 1941? Because no-one will ever know for sure. We even might suspect that Heisenberg himself did not know that.

My compliments on tying together scientifical explanations - they are accessible, but not dumbed …

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