A powerful exploration of the uncertainties of human memory and motivation. Michael Frayn's Tony award-winning play imagines the three characters re-drafting the events of 1941 in an attempt to make sense of them. Two old friends, now on opposing sides, who between them have the ability to change the course of history.īut why has Heisenberg - Bohr's former protégé - come to Copenhagen? The two presiding geniuses of quantum physics, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg meet for the first time since the breakout of war.ĭanish physicist Bohr and his wife, Margrethe, live in Nazi-occupied Denmark their visitor, Heisenberg, is German. Benedict CumberbatchĬopenhagen, Autumn 1941. Copenhagen: a Play about the Science, Politics, and Morality of Atomic Weapons Arms Control NOW Authored by Shannon Dick and Rose Morrissy on JanuOn a calm and cool January evening, we found ourselves attending a stimulating showing of Michael Frayn’s 1998 Tony award-winning play, Copenhagen, at Theater J in Washington D.C.
Adapted for radio and directed by Emma Hardingīenedict Cumberbatch, Greta Scacchi and Simon Russell Beale star in Michael Frayn's award-winning play about the controversial 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg.
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