[ePub] Let's Make Faces by Hanoch Piven in Arts-Photography

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In a brilliant coda to the play Copenhagen; Michael Frayn receives mysterious letters that take him back to the theme of his bestselling novel; Headlong -- human folly; this time his own.Michael Frayns Copenhagen has established itself as one of the finest pieces of drama to grace the stage in recent years. The subject of the Tony-winning play is the strange visit the German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg made to his former mentor; scientist Niels Bohr; in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen and the quarrel that ensued. Heisenbergs intentions on that visit; for good or for evil; have long intrigued and baffled historians and scientists. One day; during the British run of Copenhagen; Frayn received a curious package from a suburban housewife; which contained a few faded pages of barely legible German writings. These pages; which she claimed to have found concealed beneath her floorboards; seemed to cast a remarkable new light on the mystery at the heart of play. As more material emerged -- specifically notes that appeared to give instructions on how to put up a table-tennis table but perhaps containing important encoded information -- actor David Burke; who was playing Niels Bohr; began to display extreme; even suspicious interest in Frayns growing obsession with cracking the riddle of the papers. And Frayn; for his part; lost all sense of certainty. Was he the victim of an elaborate hoax? By turns comic and profound; The Copenhagen Papers explores the conundrum that is always at the heart of Frayns work -- human gullibility and the eternal difficulty of knowing why we do what we do.