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THEATER

When Plays Touch on History, What Is Truth?

By JULIA M. KLEIN

Heisenberg: I shatter the objective universe around you -- and all you can say is that there's an error in the formulation.
Bohr: There is.
Margrethe: Tea, anyone? Cake?
-- from Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn

AEH: But it's all true.
Wilde: On the contrary, it's only fact. Truth is quite another thing and is the work of the...

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