Copenhagen - (Modern Classics) by Michael Frayn (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. The meeting was fraught with danger and embarrassment, and ended in disaster. <p/>Why the German physicist Heisenberg went to Copenhagen in 1942 and what he wanted to say to the Danish physicist Bohr are questions which have exercised historians of nuclear physics ever since. In Michael Frayn's new play Heisenberg meets Bohr and his wife Margrethe once again to look for the answers, and to work out, just as they had once worked out the internal functioning of the atom, how we can ever know why we do what we do. <p/>'Michael Frayn's tremendous new play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session.' <i>Sunday Times</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session." --<i>Sunday Times of London</i> <p/>"Probably the best play about science ever written in English drama. Forget the physics. The greatest experiment... is the dramatic form itself." --<i>The Guardian</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael Frayn's award-winning plays include <i>Alphabetical Order</i>, <i> Make and Break</i> and <i>Noises Off</i>, all of which received Best Comedy of the Year awards, while <i>Benefactors</i> was named Best Play of the Year. Other recent works include <i>Democracy</i>, and <i>Copenhagen</i>, winner of numerous awards including the <i>Evening Standard</i> and Critics' Circle Best Play Awards 1998. In 2007 the Donmar Warehouse premiered his new work <i>The Crimson Hotel.
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