Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. He has written seventeen plays, including Noises Off, Copenhagen, and Democracy, translated Chekhov”s last four plays, and adapted his first as Wild Honey. His screenplays include Clockwise, starring John Cleese, and among his eleven novels are The Tin Men, Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies, and Skios. Collections of articles include Collected Columns, Stage Directions, and Travels with a Typewriter. He has also published two philosophical works, Constructions and The Human Touch, and a memoir, My Father”s Fortune. His most recent publications are three collections of short entertainments, Matchbox Theatre, Pocket Playhouse, and Magic Mobile. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
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Michael Frayn: Afterlife
Afterlife is Michael Frayn”s first new play for the National Theatre since Democracy, which premiered at the National in 2003 before West End and Broadway transfers. Afterlife opens in the NT Lyttel …
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Michael Frayn: Afterlife
Afterlife is Michael Frayn”s first new play for the National Theatre since Democracy, which premiered at the National in 2003 before West End and Broadway transfers. Afterlife opens in the NT Lyttel …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alarms And Excursions
"Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Guardian)Four old friends sit down for …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alarms And Excursions
"Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Guardian)Four old friends sit down for …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alphabetical Order
Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where batt …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alphabetical Order
Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where batt …
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Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised ato …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
’Michael Frayn’s tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session’ Sunday Times ’A profound and haunting meditation …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
’Michael Frayn’s tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session’ Sunday Times ’A profound and haunting meditation …
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Michael Frayn: Democracy
Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breakin …
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Michael Frayn: Democracy
Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breakin …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Donkeys’ Years
Michael Frayn’s ’gorgeous farce’ about a university reunionpremiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning tothe West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classiccomedy. …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Donkeys’ Years
Michael Frayn’s ’gorgeous farce’ about a university reunionpremiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning tothe West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classiccomedy. …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: First & Last
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land’s End to walk the length of his native land. He has ne …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: First & Last
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land’s End to walk the length of his native land. He has ne …
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Michael Frayn: Noises Off
Noises Off is not one play but two – simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On”s final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to i …
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Michael Frayn: Noises Off
Noises Off is not one play but two – simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On”s final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to i …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Now You Know
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Now You Know: "Frayn’s light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Now You Know
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Now You Know: "Frayn’s light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov & Frayn Michael Frayn: Sneeze
Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest prec …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov & Frayn Michael Frayn: Sneeze
Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest prec …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov’s masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth centu …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov’s masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth centu …
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Anton Chekhov: Cherry Orchard
’Frayn’s translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again’ New Statesman In Chekhov’s tragi-comedy – perhaps his most popular play – the Gayev family is …
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Anton Chekhov: Cherry Orchard
’Frayn’s translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again’ New Statesman In Chekhov’s tragi-comedy – perhaps his most popular play – the Gayev family is …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Crimson Hotel and Audience
In this absurdist comedy two lovers – a playwright and his leadactress – escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjuredfrom a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains of …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Crimson Hotel and Audience
In this absurdist comedy two lovers – a playwright and his leadactress – escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjuredfrom a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains of …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 1
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman… a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplic …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 1
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman… a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplic …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 2
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 2
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 3
The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play Copenhagen Here: "about time, space and life…A touching, brilliant constructi …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 3
The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play Copenhagen Here: "about time, space and life…A touching, brilliant constructi …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 4
Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of his strongest titles of serious drama: Copenhagen, Democracy a …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 4
Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of his strongest titles of serious drama: Copenhagen, Democracy a …
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Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised ato …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Wild Honey
Oh, Misha, it’s terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something … I …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Wild Honey
Oh, Misha, it’s terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something … I …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Noises Off
If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That’s what it’s all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on – getting off…that’s farce. That’s the theatre. That’s life.Micha …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Noises Off
If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That’s what it’s all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on – getting off…that’s farce. That’s the theatre. That’s life.Micha …
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Michael Frayn: Noises Off
As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits … the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of r …
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Michael Frayn: Noises Off
As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits … the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of r …
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