Copenhagen March 29, 2008

Michael Frayn's acclaimed masterpiece grapples with issues of history and politics while remaining exceptionally entertaining. In a departure from the author's brilliant comic turns such as 'Noises Off,' Frayn focuses on a historic event--the visit made by German physicist Werner Heisenberg to Neils Bohr during World War II in 1941. The two physicists, who had collaborated for so long on the development of quantum theory, were on opposite sides. Bohr was half-Jewish and a citizen of occupied Denmark. Heisenberg was a professor at Leipzig, but unknown to Bohr, he had become head of the Nazi regime's project to harness atomic energy. When the two brilliant, quirky minds come together, the nature and ethics of humanity begin to unfold.