From the Publisher
Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year…. An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Superbly dramatized…. [Frayn] has an elegant, almost algebraic way with the structure of a play…. Copenhagen offers a particular kind of brain-teasing pleasure.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker
“Scintillating…. A dazzling fugue.” —San Francisco Examiner
The Guardian
Probably the best play about science ever written in English drama. Forget the physics. The greatest experiment... is the dramatic form itself.
Sunday Times of London
A piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session.
Independent
A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation.
Daily Telegraph
Frayn has seized on a real-life historical and scientific mystery. In 1941 the physicist Werner Heisenberg, who formulated the famous Uncertainty Principle about the movement of particles, and was at that time leading the Nazi's nuclear programme, went to visit his old boss and mentor, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. What was the purpose of his visit to Nazi-occupied Denmark? What did the two old friends say to each other, particularly bearing in mind that Bohr was both half-Jewish and a Danish patriot?... Frayn argues that just as it is impossible to be certain of the precise location of an electron, so it is impossible to be certain about the workings of the human mind... What is certain is that Frayn makes ideas zing and sing in this play.
