Copenhagen - Softcover

Frayn, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413724905 ISBN 13: 9780413724908

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 1998

Synopsis

The story is of one of the most famous investigations ever conducted by science into the mysteries of the world - and its disastrous ending in the even stranger mysteries of the world within.

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Review:

“A piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session.”—"Sunday Times of London

"“Probably the best play about science ever written in English drama. Forget the physics. The greatest experiment... is the dramatic form itself.”—"The Guardian" 

"A piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session."--"Sunday Times of London

""Probably the best play about science ever written in English drama. Forget the physics. The greatest experiment... is the dramatic form itself."--"The Guardian"

A piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session. "Sunday Times of London"

Probably the best play about science ever written in English drama. Forget the physics. The greatest experiment... is the dramatic form itself. "The Guardian""

"A piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session." --Sunday Times of London

"Probably the best play about science ever written in English drama. Forget the physics. The greatest experiment... is the dramatic form itself." --The Guardian

About the Author:

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and read Russian, French and Moral Sciences (Philosophy) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He began his career as a journalist on the Manchester Guardian and the Observer. His award-winning plays include Alphabetical Order, Make and Break and Noises Off, all of which received Best Comedy of the Year awards, while Benefactors was named Best Play of the Year. Two of his more recent plays, Copenhagen and Democracy, also won numerous awards (including, for Copenhagen, the Tony in New York and the Prix Molière in Paris). In 2006 Donkeys' Years was revived in the West End thirty years after its premiere and was followed in 2007 by The Crimson Hotel, at the Donmar, and by Afterlife, at the National Theatre, in 2008. Frayn has translated Chekhov's last four plays, dramatised a selection of his one-act plays and short stories under the title The Sneeze, and adapted his first, untitled play, as Wild Honey. Frayn's novels include Towards the End of the Morning (in the USA, Against Entropy), The Trick of It, A Landing on the Sun, Headlong and Spies. His most recent books were a work of philosophy, The Human Touch, and Stage Directions, a collection of his writing on the theatre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0413724905
• ISBN 13: 9780413724908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136