TONY AWARD WINNER - An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious
wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic
bomb.
"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
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip
to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their
work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had
revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two
men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to
Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have
vexed historians ever since. In Michael Frayn's ambitious, fiercely
intelligent, and daring new play Heisenberg and Bohr meet once again to
discuss the intricacies of physics and to ponder the metaphysical--the
very essence of human motivation.