Together, the two invented quantum mechanics, a theory that revolutionized not just atomic physics or even subdivisions of philosophy but the manner in which people perceive the universe.īut Frayn does not principally concern the play with these rather, he focuses on one aspect of the relationship between these two men. This is a must see if you love good theatre and appreciate the simplicity which can mark great writing.Frayn’s Tony Award-winning play, Copenhagen, explores the relationship between Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenburg, two of the most significant physicists-and indeed intellects in general-of the twentieth century. The final revelation IS speculation, but is so devastating that it will have the reader shaking at the honesty of good men who history may have forced onto different sides and what might have been. In the process, they take the audience on a tour of nuclear and chaos theory which unfairly scarred many away from the original production which was so clearly written that by the end those who WENT felt they understood both. What was said? why did the friends part in disagreement? Like scientists testing hypothesis, Bohr, Heisenberg and Bohr's wife Margarethe keep going back over the evidence trying to get it right.
Heisenberg was now head of the German nuclear program and technically an enemy - but was he? The meeting was brief and ended badly - ultimately Bohr was smuggled out of Denmark and aided the U.S. Frayn's scientific mystery COPENHAGEN may well be the peak of a career that included the most hilarious farce since Wilde in his NOISES OFF - it examines the controversy (the principles themselves disagreed) over what was said at a crucial wartime meeting between Danish physicist Neils Bohr and his former student, surrogate son and best friend, Werner Heisenberg, at Bohr's home in occupied Copenhagen.
Great Britain has produced many superlative playwrights whose work has held up over the years - many would argue that at the peak of that enviable list are William Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn.
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