![]() ![]() ![]() The emphasis on historicity (or lack of it) has dominated discussion about the play. Neither spoke or wrote directly about the event and its impact, both of which have remained a matter of historical speculation. The meeting was uncomfortable, for Bohr was on one side in the war and Heisenberg on the other. The setting for the meeting (but not for the play) was comfortable it was a place where they had worked and talked together. The event they strive to understand is a meeting in occupied Copenhagen during WWII. The two were also philosophers who considered the connections between scientific knowledge and life. These men are not, however, ordinary: they are Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, whose work was foundational in quantum mechanics and in atomic physics. Their encounter is human: full of memories and memory lapses, as well as affection and denial. Another person is present and offers her insights into their affinities and variances. Politics divided them, yet as they talk about their past, other tensions, such as competitiveness, come to the fore. Science brought them together they felt like father and son or director and boy Friday. ![]() Copenhagen is a play about two men in a complex relationship who come together in the afterlife to understand their friendship and its strains. ![]()
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