Copenhagen - Brossura

Frayn, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0413724905 ISBN 13: 9780413724908

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 1998

Riassunto

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.

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.

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L'autore:

Michael Frayn's award-winning plays include Alphabetical Order, Make and Break and Noises Off, all of which received Best Comedy of the Year awards, while Benefactors was named Best Play of the Year. Other recent works include Democracy, and Copenhagen, winner of numerous awards including the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Best Play Awards 1998. In 2007 the Donmar Warehouse premiered his new work The Crimson Hotel.

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Book by Frayn Michael

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0413724905
• ISBN 13: 9780413724908
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 116