An overview of Act One and Act Two of Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen.
In the play, Copenhagen, Michael Frayn does not set out to arrive at any conclusion about the past. It is perplexing that the play sets the two characters, Heisenberg and Bohr, in the past yet does not let them reveal the causal connections of their past actions. The uncertainty about human mind and action is the focus of the play, which explains why Heisenberg appears and behaves differently in the two Acts of the play.