Copenhagen, Michael Frayn
Copenhagen, Michael Frayn
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Copenhagen

Author: Michael Frayn

Narrator: Alfred Molina, David Krumholtz, Shannon Cochran

Unabridged: 2 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2012


Synopsis

How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the Manhattan Project. Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama imagines their reunion. Joined by Niels' wife, Margrethe, these three brilliant minds converge for an encounter of atomic proportions.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Alfred Molina as Niels Bohr
Shannon Cochran as Margrethe Bohr
David Krumholtz as Werner Heisenberg

Directed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in November, 2011.

Copenhagen is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

About Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Novel Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by MickPro on August 30, 2020

Practical jokes aren’t my thing really. But this clever, very smart, original and creative series of gamesmanship is well worth the ride. It centers around a play and/ or a gathering and/or the machinations of an actor with a wonderful wandering sense of could have beens.......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on February 26, 2017

I'm currently burning through all of the Copenhagen series and Michael Frayn - you are hilarious. The hoax about uncovering the mysterious papers and how this ensconced that little town was comically riveting. No wonder Copenhagen won the Tony :)......more

Goodreads review by Elly on December 26, 2021

A gift from Joris J, who was apparently cleaning out his, or Meike's personal library. Thanx Joris! One day during the run of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have so......more

Goodreads review by James on December 03, 2021

A gem of an intrigue about memory, interpretation of evidence, imagination, desire and how we construct what we take to be real.......more

Goodreads review by Jocelie on October 13, 2024

It’s so rare to have a really fun read that gives you furiously to think .........more