Copenhagen at Theater J

Michael Frayn; dir: Eleanor Holdridge.

Authors

• Michael Frayn

Copenhagen focuses on the 1941 meeting between Nils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in occupied Denmark. This play explores both Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the uncertainty of the human condition, the ethical responsibility of the scientist, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the trauma that was World War II. But it also looks at what we can know, or what can be known. What are the bonds that bring us together as people, and what can science ultimately know.

Copenhagen won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2000.