Article: SOMETHING IS ROCKING IN DENMARK.(L.A. Life) (theater review)

Byline: Evan Henerson Theater Critic

As he prepares for a visitor, Niels Bohr allows feelings of fury and fear to give way, momentarily, to eagerness. Werner Heisenberg - like Bohr, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist - will arrive with new information. ``What can it be?'' wonders Bohr, his eyes dancing like a 6-year-old on a pre-Christmas shopping spree.

Michael Frayn's ``Copenhagen'' assumes that its viewers will share Bohr's excitement at the concept of unleashing the human mind, and his play makes no concessions to those who won't buy in. A science background is, I suspect, helpful but not essential. Audiences inclined to bend their brain cells around ...

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