August 4, 2006

'Science on Stage: From "Doctor Faustus" to "Copenhagen"'

By NINA C. AYOUB

In September 1941, Werner Heisenberg secretly visited Niels Bohr in Nazi-occupied Denmark. What happened between the German physicist and his Danish mentor has been speculative fodder for history, but also for theater.

Michael Frayn's Copenhagen (1998), with its multifaceted vision of the two physicists' encounter, won both acclaim and controversy. Yet the hit drama is just the most visible in a flurry of "science plays" in recent decades, says Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, a senior lecturer

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