Power, Physics, and the Past: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen Returns

Power, Physics, and the Past: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen Returns

History is rarely a fixed record; instead, it often resembles a series of shifting probabilities, much like the subatomic particles that define our physical world. Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen remains the definitive dramatization of this ambiguity, transforming a debated wartime encounter into a complex meditation on the ethics of science and the fragility of the truth. Returning to the London stage for its first major production since its 1998 pr…