Frayn, Michael

Frayn, Michael (2000). Copenhagen. New York Anchor Books. 

Frayn, Michael. Copenhagen. New York Anchor Books (Random House), 2000. A play that dramatizes the famous meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen during World War II. 

Some historians think that Heisenberg may have deliberately dragged his feet so as not to deliver the bomb into HMei s hands. Others feel he may simply have been hindered by mistakes in his calculations. We may never know for sure what Heisenberg s intentions were. The issue is explored with great ingenuity in Michael Frayn s 1998 play Copenhagen (London Methuen). 

Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn, which debuted in 1998 and won the 2000 Tony Award. It explored Heisenberg s role in the German bomb project and the termination of the two-decade friendship between these two towering physicists. Bohr escaped to Sweden by fishing boat in 1943. 

In Michael Frayn s delightful fantasy TheTinMen, the Newspaper Department of the William Morris Institute of Automation Research tries to show that in theory a digital computer could be programmed to produce a perfectly satisfactory daily newspaper with all the variety and news sense of the hand made article . Once this idea was exploited commercially, The stylization of the modern newspaper would be complete. Its last residual connection with the raw, messy, ofFendable real world would have been broken The Department s example is Child Told Dress Unsuitable by Teacher ... 

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