caa a22 4500 388093811 CHVBK 20180307125259.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00013233 doi S0266464X00013233 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00013233 Stewart Victoria A Theatre of Uncertainties: Science and History in Michael Frayn's ‘Copenhagen' [Elektronische Daten] [Victoria Stewart] A recurring strand over the past few years in New Theatre Quarterly has been the relationship between the nature of theatricality and scientific conceptions rooted in quantum mechanics - notably Chaos Theory and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. This approach is questioned by scientists, who doubt the possibility of bridging the scientific and the literary uses of the metaphorical language being deployed. Michael Frayn's recent play, Copenhagen, used the crucial wartime visit paid by Heisenberg to Niels Bohr, his fellow architect of the Uncertainty Principle, to explore the scientific concepts involved through the work's own form and content. Victoria Stewart here assesses the nature and the success of Frayn's techniques in relation to the wider uncertainties of live theatrical performance as well as to the relationship between the scientific and artistic use of metaphor. The outcome, she concludes, is ‘a dialogue between two fields of discourse - science and theatre - which reveals that both necessarily deal in ambiguity and uncertainty of outcome'. Victoria Stewart lectures in English and Drama at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/4(1999-11), 301-307 0266-464X 15:4<301 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00013233 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00013233 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stewart Victoria NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/4(1999-11), 301-307 0266-464X 15:4<301 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge