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Michael Frayn
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences.
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A unique memoir of a lifetime's friendships - from one of Britain's most beloved literary companions.
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Anton Chekhov
A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition
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Merritt Moseley
Best known for his play Noises Off , Michael Frayn has garnered widespread critical acclaim and a number of literary honors for his work as a novelist, philosopher, and translator…
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One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the Guardian and Observer . This volume brings together 110…
Anthony Thwaite, Michael Frayn
A collection of a hundred of Anthony Thwaite's poems, selected from a span of more than sixty years, exploring his major themes and recurring topics-among them, the consolations of domestic…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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A study guide for Michael Frayn’s Noises Off , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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In gripping prose charged with emotional intensity, this national bestseller by the author of Headlong reaches into the moral confusion of two boys in wartime London to reveal a reality…
Published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre in June 2008, Afterlife is Michael Frayn’s grand, theatrical new play about the life of Max Reinhardt, founder of…
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In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that…
A revised edition of Michael Frayn’s comedy set in a provincial newspaper office, Alphabetical Order won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy when it transferred from the Hampstead Theatre…
This long-running hit starred Sam Waterston on Broadway as an urban architect whose attempts to improve humanity by the environments he creates, only leads to chaos when the high-rise boom…
Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, warblers, beepers and cheepers, all trying to warn them of something.
Terry, an ex-petty-criminal, runs a small charity organization which campaigns for freedom of information. When he is handed a not-to-be-missed case it becomes apparent that everybody in the office has…
The story is of one of the most famous investigations ever conducted by science into the mysteries of the world - and its disastrous ending in the even stranger mysteries…
‘Manning’s old friend Proctor-Gould was in Moscow and anxious to get in touch with him. Or so Manning was informed. He looked forward to the meeting. He had few friends…
Michael Frayn’s gorgeous farce about a university reunion.
Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of Michael Frayn’s best-known titles: Copenhagen, Democracy and Afterlife, as…
Three plays by comic dramatist Michael Frayn, compiled as a follow-up edition to Michael Frayn Plays: One . Included is Frayn’s adaptation of Chekhov’s first play, here called Wild Honey…
One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds (The Times)
Released to follow on from Michael Frayn Plays: 2 , this anthology contains three of Frayn’s plays: Here ; Now You Know ; and La Bele Vivette . The plays…
This play opens with a touring company dress-rehearsing Nothing On , a conventional farce. Mixing mockery and homage, Frayn heaps into this play a stock of characters and situation
The newest volume in Michael Frayn’s comic trio: thirsty ‘pre-loaded’ new text files in a no-fuss, non-digital entertainment system.
Presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the world - the theatre of your own imagination.
The author of award winning novels (such as Spies), plays (Copenhagen and Noises Off) and films (Clockwise) here produces his first work of non-fiction, one which explores all of the…
A collection of short plays Black and Silver
Characters: 1 male, 1 female
Interior Set
In this short, affecting and laughable scene parents are awakened in the middle of the…
Matchbox Theatre is the perfect gift for fans of Michael Frayn or the theatre - thirty comic masterpieces from the author of Noises Off and Skios.
A backlist fiction masterpiece from the author of Spies and Skios.
Present a drama about a successful manufacturer, driven by the compulsion to use and consume everything around him. During one climactic night at a trade fair in Germany, however, he…
Terry, the charismatic director of a British campaign for open government, has a direct approach to official secrets and women alike. The only person who can resist his brash frankness…
This is a screenplay about a recently retired insurance manager who is ill. He decides to combat his illness by walking from Land’s End to John O'Groats and in doing…
Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh (Guardian)
The Crimson Hotel is a hilarious absurdist comedy by one of Britain’s greatest living playwrights. The play has its world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, on 25 July…
Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Only one person finds it easy to resist his charm and counter his arguments and that’s Hilary - one of the serious and dedicated…
A charming, moving and witty childhood memoir from one of Britain’s best-loved writers.
Written in a form of protagonist’s letters to his Australian friend, this novel is a subtle and psychologically exact depiction of the moral degradation of an ordinary man afflicted with…
Owen Shorter, professional journalist, and Mara Hill, well known lady novelist, discover at the beginning of the play that they have been sent to Cuba to write for rival colour…
Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of ‘pure gold, like unto clear glass’. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for…
Frayn once again creates out of the known events of 20th-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency and subtlety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as he became…
A Very Private Life follows a young girl as she ventures into a frightening dystopian world riven with inequality and division.
This amusing satire about audiences by the author of Noises Off, Copenhagen and other acclaimed plays takes place in the stalls (orchestra) of a West End theatre. The cast includes…
An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.
A Michael Frayn play in which a couple move into an empty room and begin to construct their life together. The responsibility is daunting, especially when they reflect that it…
