Title: A Dreadful Adapatation
Product review: Although Copenhagen is among my favorite plays, I have to say, this is a dreadful adaptation. The abstract, almost expressionist staging is stripped away in favor of an unfortunately literal reading of the characters' claim to be ghosts. Much of the meat of the play, including virtuall all of the depictions of the culture of the physicists in Copenhagen is absent. The play's wandering and fruitless searching becomes an overly direct beeline to Frayn's eventual conclusions. These cuts are especially inexcusable considering that Copehagen is far from a long play.All of which is a huge pity. As I said, I firmly believe Copenhagen to be among the greatest plays of the 20th century. But this is a woefully inadequate adapation, and it's downright criminal that it's the only filmic adaptation we have. One can only hope that a better one will come along some day.
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