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In the company of friends--a reading of “Copenhagen”
09-Jul-2010
I’ll have to warn you--this may look like I am showing off! I promise I can’t help it this time! This Saturday, July 10, 2010, I am going to a very special event. Three of my friends are reading Copenhagen, a play by Michael Frayn, translated into Farsi by another friend of mine! What’s more, the venue for the event is Central Stage, which is managed by another one of my friends! And guess what?! In all likelihood, the cozy and warm theater will be filled with many of my other friends!
Showing off aside, for those who live in this area and have a chance to come join me (and my friends!), there is something really special in store. Director Hamid Ehya’s translation of Copenhagen won the award for “Best Translated Play” from Iranian Playwrights’ Association in 2009. The readers will be Ari Siletz, Bella Warda, and Behzad Golmohammadi. Actor and director Mansour Taeed will be hosting the reading at Central Stage at 5221 Central Avenue in Richmond, CA 94804 at 8:00 p.m.
I hope you can join us if you live in this area. It will be a night to remember!
Copenhagen is a highly acclaimed two-act play by Michael Frayn, about a discussion among the Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962), his wife, Margrethe Bohr, and the German physicist Werner Heisenberg.
Niels Bohr received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his contribution to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. Werner Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics and its application. Niels Bohr was a prominent scientist in Denmark whose life was in danger because he was half Jewish. Heisenberg was a high-ranking physicist in Nazi Germany. Both men had the theoretical knowledge of how to create a nuclear bomb. They were once on the same side of the scientific pursuit, but now stood on opposite sides of the war. During the course of the play, the two scientists go through what went on in a meeting at Bohr’s home.
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نازی خانم عزیز
Literary CriticWed Jul 14, 2010 01:20 AM PDT
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Dear Critic Jan:
by Nazy Kaviani on Sun Jul 11, 2010 08:49 AM PDTFirst things, first--where have you been?!! Thanks so much for your comment, the clips, and your ending thoughts.
The reading was an absolute delight! It was very well done and the time was very well spent, and I don't just say that because the artists were my friends!
In fact, last night after the reading, the audience, Hamid Ehya, and the readers became engaged in a very interesting discussion about the very point you raised. The idea that "they didn't because they couldn't" did get discussed. There was also an interesting observation by some members of the audience about how for them, the position of the "villain" may have been switched toward the end of the play (from Heisenberg to Bohr), providing an opposite of this view.
Thanks so much L.C. Jan.
In case you were interested ...
by Literary Critic on Sun Jul 11, 2010 02:58 AM PDTPerhaps the most critically acclaimed dramatisation of Frayn's Copenhagen remains to be the BBC's adoptation of the play (2002) featuring Daniel Craig (New James Bond) as Heisenberg:
The crux of the play is to dispel the myth that the team of German physicists (under Heisenberg) did not make Bomb as they did not subscribe to the Nazi doctorine. Here in a number of fascinating exchanges towards the end of the play, Frayn suggests that the Germans did not make the Bomb because they had got it wrong.
MPD Jan
by Nazy Kaviani on Fri Jul 09, 2010 04:59 PM PDTYes, my friends are absolutely fabulous, yourself included! As a rule of thumb, one can never go wrong when she finds her friends among writers and poets! Try and come tomorrow night if you can!
Hi Mehrban Jan!
by Nazy Kaviani on Fri Jul 09, 2010 04:55 PM PDTPeople tell me it's Persian now, but I haven't grown used to it yet!
Mehrban, you are so sweet and so special, I wish you could be here for every single event! I am sure you are a wonderful member of the Iranian community wherever you live my friend!
I will miss you tomorrow night! Maybe some of the others who can go will write about it!
What a wonderful group of people you have as friends…
by Multiple Personality Disorder on Fri Jul 09, 2010 07:45 AM PDTLee Iacocca, the famous American businessman, used to say when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. It looks like you already have a great life many times over.
Hi! Nazy
by Mehrban on Fri Jul 09, 2010 06:32 AM PDTI saw the play a few years ago. Great that it has been translated to Farsi (Persian? :-)). I wish I could be there at the reading.