What is the play about, beyond this particular episode in German history?
It’s a play about politics without a particular agenda to flog, which is not only rare, it’s absent these days. It’s a true history play. It’s very rare that we get true history plays that don’t have another point to make somewhere along the line. It’s about process. For me the whole play is about the process of telling this story and being on this character’s journey. It’s also about how the process in the individual mind is mirrored in the overall political process, how the political process is simply our psychic process writ large and factored up. If Copenhagen is to some degree about uncertainty, then this is to some degree about chaos and complexity. How anything ever gets done. Sometimes what gets done is what you intend; so often, as my character says in the very first line of the second act, nothing ever turns out the way one expects. Everything goes in a different direction, because of all these things that come into play. Sometimes you do the right thing, sometimes you do the
