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Article: Culture: Wonderful wonderful nuclear fission; Michael Frayn's smash hit Copenhagen succeeds in making a drama out of a scientific crisis, writes Terry Grimley.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2001
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Byline: Terry Grimley
Set as a challenge, it would seem almost impossibly daunting to develop a hit play out of a conversation between two physicists discussing the theoretical intricacies of nuclear fission.
But this is what Michael Frayn achieved with his play Copenhagen, an imaginative reconstruction of the actual meeting between the distinguished German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his Danish counterpart Nils Bohr in 1941.
After an initial year-long run at the Royal National Theatre, Copenhagen went on to play in London's West End for two ...