Copenhagen
a new play by Michael Frayn (1998)
Winner of the 1998 Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Play.In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr.
They were old friends, and their work together had opened the way into the atom. But now they were on opposite sides of a world war, and the meeting ended in disaster.
Scientists and historians have argued ever since about why Heisenberg went, and what the two men said. Copenhagen retraces their journey through the mysteries of the world around us - and on into the even stranger mysteries of the world within.
Copenhagen is Michael Frayn's first original play for the National. His previous work includes Noises Off and Benefactors - both directed by Michael Blakemore.
Photograph of Werner Heisenberg, 1947
