{"id":57612,"date":"2026-04-08T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/57612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:00:10","slug":"michael-frayns-cleverest-play-is-still-gripping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/57612\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Frayn\u2019s cleverest play is still gripping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no faulting Irish actor <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/bergerac-udrama-ep-1-review-damien-molony\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damien Molony<\/a> as Heisenberg \u2013 the more youthful figure besides Schiff\u2019s quiet, beadily scholastic Bohr as their intellectual friendship is relived, alongside the fraught exchanges of 1941. Molony manages to communicate an extrovert charm that somehow augments the enigma \u2013 what\u2019s going on in his head puzzles the others, and himself too. The evening builds to collide the miracle of the world\u2019s narrow escape from Nazi nuclear domination with the elusive nature of existence itself, and the fragility of all our afterlives (which perforce takes in the Trumpian world order).<\/p>\n<p>Longhurst answers the brain-boxy material with visual dazzle, avoiding static lecture-mode with a double-revolve that shifts the trio\u2019s positions, combining meditative restlessness with a suggestion of atomic particles. Joanna Scotcher\u2019s design also cannily uses rows of lightbulbs, reflective surfaces and rippling water to conjure a cross between Copenhagen, a nuclear reactor and a Stygian no-man\u2019s land. A commendable enough tribute to Frayn\u2019s classic, all told, despite the fluffs.<\/p>\n<p>Hampstead Theatre (<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"http:\/\/hampsteadtheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">hampsteadtheatre.com<\/a>), until May 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no faulting Irish actor Damien Molony as Heisenberg \u2013 the more youthful figure besides Schiff\u2019s quiet, beadily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,2059,30859,26,30860,121,31764,5355,6105,31763,7770,30863,29752],"class_list":["post-57612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-copenhagen","tag-culture","tag-culture-editors-choice","tag-denmark","tag-dominic-cavendish","tag-hampstead-theatre","tag-nazi-germany","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-review","tag-strictly-come-dancing","tag-theatre","tag-us-content","tag-what-to-watch"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116370160006984070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}