Copenhagen by Michael Frayn has won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Molière Award for Best New Play in 1999, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2000, the New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best Foreign Play in 2000, but the main reason for listening to it was that I admire the author – you find thousands of reviews of plays, magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and my YouTube channel

 

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn has won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Molière Award for Best New Play in 1999, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2000, the New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best Foreign Play in 2000, but the main reason for listening to it was that I admire the author – you find thousands of reviews of plays, magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and my YouTube channel

 

8 out of 10

 

I have read four works by Michael Frayn https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/towards-end-of-morning-by-michael-frayn.html, well, two were motion pictures actually, and three novels but Towards the End of The Morning and Headlong were so exhilarating that I plan to read at least the former again, soon

 

There are three characters in this play, and one of them is Werner Heisenberg, who went to Copenhagen to study quantum mechanics with Niels Bohr in 1924, when he was 22, and replaced Bohr's assistant During the Second World War, Heisenberg worked for Germany, researching atomic technology and heading their nuclear reactor program

Copenhagen speculates on what was discussed between him, Niels Bohr and Margrethe Bohr: my understanding is that Heisenberg did not help the Nazis get an atomic bomb – they did not have one, eventually, Insha’Allah – he talks with Bohr about the quantities and the fact that he gave the ‘wrong number’

 

That was because he did not plan on the bomb, which makes me think of Oppenheimer https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/oppenheimer-is-fabulous-glasperlenspiel.html who is mentioned in the play: "Most of the world's great theoretical physicists... spent periods of their lives at Bohr's Institute." 

And the savant went to Los Alamos, where he contributed to the final result, the atomic bomb that killed so many in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he expressed remorse on the subject, regarding the horrible loss of human lives, but if the Germans had taken the initiative, it would have been much worse – one reason for their loss was:

 

The fact that they expelled so many Jewish intellectuals and others fled from the path of the Nazis, Niels Bohr himself had to flee from Denmark, and found refuge in America – which brings me to the nuclear programs that are at the center of the news over these past few weeks, as Israel and America have attacked Iran

The big problem we have is the Orange American Psycho https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis-9.html who keeps changing the goals of the war, it used to be getting rid of the nuclear program, then regime change and now he wants out

 

I have not heard his speech last night, but somebody told me at the gym that he wants out of NATO, this man is not just awfully stupid, he is also monstrous, he does not want to give weapons to Ukraine anymore, even if allies (well, ex allies) pay for it, he is all for Putin and other dictators, the ones he likes, indeed, Iran can have their own, Orange Psycho does not mind

 

 

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