Hampstead Theatre Revives Frayn’s Copenhagen in London

Overview

• Hampstead Theatre is staging Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen in a new revival directed by Michael Longhurst and running in London through 2 May.
• Damien Molony plays Werner Heisenberg with Richard Schiff as Niels Bohr and Alex Kingston as Margrethe Bohr.
• Critics single out the design, with Joanna Scotcher’s hanging bulbs, a circular platform set over water, and movement that mirrors particle-like paths.
• The play revisits Heisenberg’s 1941 visit to Bohr in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen and uses quantum uncertainty to question how we judge motives and responsibility.
• Frayn told Physics World he never expected the play to be staged and said it is about the elusiveness of human intention.